Production Archives
In near-future Mumbai, India, a family struggles to survive in a world in which the economy has deteriorated beyond repair and the only way to survive is to sell yourself, piece by piece. Harvest, a dark speculative satire, explores the human experience in a world in which life can be packaged,...
On Oct. 12, 1995, Johnny Gammage, cousin of former Pittsburgh Steeler Ray Seals, was stopped by a Brentwood, Pa., police officer. Seven minutes later, Gammage was dead. This original docudrama goes beyond issues of Black and White to expose the failures of public policy that still trouble the city...
Sweeney Todd marks the first collaboration between Pitt Rep and the University’s Department of Music. The production involves more than 50 actors, set designers, and technicians and more than 60 Pitt musicians, who will provide the musical accompaniment to the dramatic story of a deranged barber...
“All the world's a stage.” After all, it has to be big enough for Rosalind’s moxie, Celia’s spirit, and Orlando’s unwavering devotion. And since family feuds and love triangles never go out of style, director Sam Turich brings an urban approach and a techno twist to Shakespeare’s classic comedy. As...
Churchill in Short(s)? is a compilation of three rarely performed one-act plays by Caryl Churchill
The After-Dinner Joke, originally produced for television, examines charity through the idealism of its main character, Selby, and the politics surrounding her charitable efforts...
Slasher is a satirical twist on horror films as iconic “last-girl standing” Sheena lands a part in a low-budget flick, only to have her debut marred by a smarmy D-list director and her feminist mother, who adds new meaning to the word “cut!”
Written by Allison Moore and directed by Holly Thuma,...
Adapted by Chip Crane and directed by Sam Turich, this lively 45-minute production includes some of the Bard’s best-known love and fight scenes. Both novice and longtime fans of Shakespeare will witness an energetic mix of his most famous romances and suspenseful spars. A lively mix of Shakespeare’...
This a one-man show focuses on by-now rather obscure subjects, subjects which no doubt have an undying cult following.
The story liine deals with really small characters: a literate cockroach named Archy and a sassy alley cat called Mehitabel. They were the 1916 creations of New York novelist,...
Follow Alice as she plummets into a parallel universe where rabbits drink tea, cast spout philosophy, and the characters depicted on playing cards try to chop off your head. For nearly 150 years, Alice’s surreal adventures have amused and haunted audiences of all ages. Amid the offbeat, quirky...
Scapin has the look and spirit of slapstick movie comedies from the 1930s. The result is a madcap romp complete with Keystone Cops and plenty of physical comedy. The production tells the story of four star-crossed lovers. Since the path of true love rarely runs smoothly, it is up to the faithful...
Dracula tells the story of the goings-on at Dr. Seward's Asylum for the Criminally Insane are even stranger than usual since the arrival of a mysterious nobleman from Transylvania. Mina has fallen ill with an unusual malady, suffering the same symptoms that killed her friend, Lucy. Patient...
Little Girl has recently moved from Heretown to Thereville. She loves books and tomatoes and desperately wants people to like her. Bossy Best Friend is her new best friend. Bossy Best Friend is older, richer, and girlier than Little Girl. When Bossy Best Friend leaves for her summer vacation,...
Tony Kushner's Angels in America II: Perestroikal continues the story of Prior Walter, newly HIV/AIDS symptomatic, had been deserted by his boyfriend, Louis, and visited by an Angel crashing through his ceiling. Louis, meanwhile, was punishing himself by sleeping with Joe Pitt, a closeted Mormon...
Tony Kushner's Angels in America, has won just about every award a play could (including a 1992 Tony and Pulitzer).
Prior Walter, the gay black sheep of a Mayflower family, starts the play with the discovery of his first AIDS-related illness. His boyfriend, Louis Ironson -- much better with benign...
A Pulitzer Prize finalist and Pittsburgh premiere, "The Clean House" takes place in a "metaphysical" Connecticut, where no affluent household is complete without a Latin housekeeper. Matilde, a Brazilian cleaning lady, has no interest in cleaning. She prefers to devote her time to composing the...