Production Archives
Special guest director Victoria Rhoades, of the prestigious Shakespeare & Company, brings the Bard's most popular comedy to the University of Pittsburgh Stages. When four friends find themselves lost in the woods on the eve of an important wedding, they discover that love is more than just a...
Something happened to Chloe after that party last Saturday, and everyone at school is talking about it. The problem is, Chloe can’t remember anything about that night. Set in an American mid-west high school and inspired by current events, Good Kids explores the very public aftermath of a sex...
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
A lonely adoptee in Japan, a donut-addicted IRS agent, haiku-spouting reclusive guru, and two blood cousins from North Philly’s barrio. This motley crew gathers in an internet chatroom to share life's fragile successes and help weather its bleak...
On the shores of California, four members of the dysfunctional Tate clan desperately try to hold onto their failing farm. Weston struggles with alcoholism and debt while his wife, Ella, dreams of an exotic escape. Meanwhile son, Wesley, and daughter, Emma, make plans of their own. This Obie Award-...
In this sexy new translation of the Spanish golden age classic, Lope de Vega's romantic comedy of class and desire sizzles to life. Set in luxurious 17th century Naples, a strong-minded countess discovers her handsome secretary seducing her favorite lady in waiting. Fueled by jealousy, she weaves...
Richard McMillan made a name for himself in the 1980s as a keystone member of the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival. During his time on the stage, Rick set new standards of excellence in acting that endeared him to Pittsburgh audiences. For some time now, Rick has been fighting serious cancer of...
Avenue Q's cast of puppets, politically incorrect lyrics, and hilarious upending of children's television laughed its way into three Tony awards. Now, Bria Walker brings this Broadway hit to the University of Pittsburgh Stages. Follow recent graduate, Princeton, as he tries to find his way in the...
Sara arrives in New York on a fellowship to teach third grade in the Bronx and befriends Callie, a NY native. As their lives intermingle, romance builds to one fateful kiss on a park bench in the middle of the night. The fallout of that single kiss reverberates through Sara and Callie's lives,...
Set in the barrio of New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood, the musical examines the lives — and dreams — of its residents.
The Rosarios have sent their daughter Nina off to Stanford University in hopes she will make a better life for herself — and not end up with dispatcher Benny....
This production of Aeschylus' tragedy done with a translation by British poet Ted Hughes (published posthumously in 1999) and visuals drawn from 20th-century wars and aesthetics.
The Trojan War, concluded offstage, is much discussed and leads to an elaborate and ultimately unpleasant homecoming...
The OBIE-award winning Venus tells the story of Sartjie “Sarah” Baartman, a young South African woman with drive and a shrewd mind. Lured away by dreams of luxury, she is caged and exhibited in a London freak show. She escapes and ends up exploited by a doctor with whom she has fallen in love....
A story set in a parallel universe where homosexuality is the norm and heterosexuality is taboo.
Zanna, Don’t! tells the story of goings-on at Heartsville High School, set in the Midwest, where the jocks on the chess team dominate the school’s social ladder, the Girls’ Intramural Mechanical Bull-...
Compleat Female Stage Beauty is set in England in 1661, a time when only men could act on stage, the story focuses on Kynaston, a male actor who has become the toast of the town for his stunning portrayal of Shakespeare’s tragic leading ladies—Ophelia, Cleopatra, and Desdemona. But when an unknown...
Her Hamlet is a vivid intrepretation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and retells the story through the eyes of the women in the Prince’s life. Judith, Shakespeare's youngest daughter, is haunted by the ghosts of her father's characters. Accompanied by her faithful sidekick, Yorick, Jude seeks to uncover...
City of Asylum/Pittsburgh provides sanctuary to writers in danger of persecution or death in their home countries. They have been in operation since 2004. In addition to hosting and supporting exiled writers, COA/P also engages creatively with the community.
Cynthia Croot – a writer, director, and...