1300 Bingham Street | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15203 | 412 431 CITY
Tracy Brigden: Artistic Director | Mark R. Power: Managing Director
Tracy Brigden: Artistic Director | Mark R. Power: Managing Director
SAM BENDRIX AT THE BON SOIR
World Premiere
November 12 – December 18, 2011 – Hamburg Studio
by Keith Bunin
with music by Cole Porter, Leonard Bernstein, the Gershwins, and more!
The drinks and the music flow at the legendary Bon Soir. In 1958 Greenwich Village, a young singer and his band take the stage for a final performance before he quits New York City forever. While a chair he’s holding for a special someone sits empty all night, Sam Bendrix tells a classic tale of an era not yet ready for the revolutionary changes on the horizon.
featuring Luke Macfarlane of
ABC's Brothers & Sisters!
By special arrangement with Daryl Roth
THROUGH THE NIGHT
Nominated for the 2011 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show
January 14 – February 5, 2012 – Main Stage
by Daniel Beaty
This kinetic one-man show tells six intersecting stories about what it means to be a black man in America today. Equal parts poetry and soul, this virtuosic feat of acting portrays a range of eclectic characters – a precocious 10-year-old boy, an overweight bishop, a college student escaping the projects, and more. Each unforgettable voice reveals the hope, courage, and determination we all need to make it through the night. The New York Times calls Through the Night “a thing of beauty.”
THE MONSTER IN THE HALL
Scotland’s hottest playwright returns to City Theatre
March 10 – April 1, 2012 – Main Stage
by David Greig
Rev your engines for a high-octane, comic joyride. Meet Duck, a sassy 16-year-old whose mom died years ago in a motorcycle crash. Her father, nearly blind from MS, cares more for his vintage bike than he does for maintaining a stable home environment. It’s up to Duck to hold her dysfunctional world together. The Guardian praises David Greig’s work as “raucous…delivering comedy, pathos, and romance.”
TIGERS BE STILL
Hot new play
March 31 – May 6, 2012 – Hamburg Studio
by Kim Rosenstock
Depression has never been funnier! Sherry’s art therapy degree didn’t launch her dream career, so she moved back into her childhood bedroom. Her mom won’t come downstairs. Her sister won’t leave the couch. Her very first patient won’t stick around for a session. Her boss brings a rifle to work. And an escaped tiger roams the streets … but Sherry’s life is looking up. Variety commends Rosenstock’s “clever comic dialogue in a voice that is too smart to be cute.”
POP!
Rock musical murder mystery
May 5 – 27, 2012 – Main Stage
by Maggie-Kate Coleman and Anna K. Jacobs
Who shot Andy Warhol? Welcome to Warhol’s legendary Factory, where every artist has talent, ego, and a motive to pull the trigger. As the pop icon’s life flashes before his eyes, he confronts an unforgettable cast of outrageous suspects and wrestles with the meaning of his own legacy. Variety calls this wild musical collage“vibrant, hip, fresh, and a hell of a lot of fun.”
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