Reviewed by Dr. Tiffany Raymond, PhD The Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) 31st season is well underway, running through September 18th. This one-of-a-kind theatre festival is a reminder of Pittsburgh’s robust arts culture. The New Works Festival features four programs… Read More ›
Pittsburgh New Works Festival
On Stage at the 2022 Pittsburgh New Works Festival
On the Main Stage at the 2022 Pittsburgh New Works Festival The Pittsburgh New Works Festival has been dedicated to producing new plays from all over the world for 31 years! From comedy to drama and traditional to cutting edge,… Read More ›
PNWF: Program D
By Eva Phillips The range of emotions and sentiments in the final program of Pittsburgh New Works Festival on display throughout the categorically eclectic array of three plays are profoundly mercurial and, at times, riveting. Revenge plots hatched by Lady… Read More ›
PNWF Program C: 2019
By Brian Pope Even with their short run times, the plays that make up Program C of the 2019 Pittsburgh New Works Festival don’t pull any dramatic punches. Whether they’re revealing closely guarded secrets, reliving past trauma, or hilariously contemplating… Read More ›
PNWF Program A: 2019
By Eva Phillips An embittered villain bent on vindication and clearing his literary reputation. A purgatorial lesson in the subtleties of the bard. A blind date that perhaps is not so oblivious to age or consequences. These are the stakes… Read More ›
PNWF Program B: 2019
By Brian Pope What’s better than one opening night? Four opening nights! For the last 29 years, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival has been a champion of the one act play. Each festival sees 12 plays receive full productions across… Read More ›
PNWF Program D: 2018
Pittsburgh New Works Festival opened their Program D one acts on Friday, September 14, 2018, putting together a group of plays that asked the big questions about the meaning of existence, and the not so big questions about how to… Read More ›
PNWF Program C: 2018
Why am I here? Who should I be? What am I allowed? Program C was three shows in total, with less than a 2 hour total run time, and in case you’re the type to only read the first few… Read More ›
PNWF Program B: 2018
Enjoying its impressive twenty-eighth year, the hotly anticipated and highly regarded Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) is in full swing and delivering a new array of exciting, original one-act plays. PNWF, which involves a number of the outstanding theatre companies… Read More ›
PNWF Program A: 2018
The 28th annual Pittsburgh New Works Festival (PNWF) once again awes with an admirably ambitious line-up. The festival features four programs (A-D) over a three and a half week span. Each program showcases three new one-act plays, each produced by… Read More ›