Theater City is a professional theater company located on the South Side of Pittsburgh. It specializes in the production of new dramas and has commissioned new works by playwrights on the national theater scene, including Christopher Durang, Adam Rapp, and Jeffrey Hatcher. Founded in 1975 as a City Player under the direction of Marjorie Walker, he originally consisted mainly of Carnegie Mellon graduates and was part of the Pittsburgh Department of Parks and Recreation, performing at schools, parks and residential projects. Initially the group shared their show room at Allegheny Center on the North Side with Pittsburgh Public Theater. In 1979, the group was offered a residence at the University of Pittsburgh and renamed the City Theater. "Homeless" for a short period of time, the University of Pittsburgh theater department offered to protect the theater company in 1980. Attilo Favorini, head of department, thought that, "City Theater offered us [Pitt] an opportunity for Pitt's students to work in a professional company." (Steele, Bruce) Artistic Struggle -The City Theater Company: A History of Bad Luck and Good Theater "p.27) In addition to receiving a new group of professional actors, CETA funding enabled the expansion of the company and the creation of the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival in the summer of 1980. On in 1981, under the artistic direction of Marc Masterson, the company moved into a new showroom on Bouquet Street in Oakland. The company moved back to a new show room at the former Bingham United Methodist Church on the South Side in 1991, where in addition to its own season it acted as a host room for the early production of the New Pittsburgh Work Festival. Marc Masterson became the artistic director of the Louisville Actor Theater in Kentucky, and Tracy Brigden became artistic director in 2001.
In addition to its main show season, the City Theater offers educational outreach programs such as the Young Playwrights Festival, where proposed games played by students in high school and high school are provided professional production, and the City Theater Playmaker, which provides an opportunity for Pittsburgh youth to write a radio drama that is fully produced and broadcast.
Video City Theatre (Pittsburgh)
See also
Theater in Pittsburgh
Maps City Theatre (Pittsburgh)
References
City Theater Company Records [1] (City Theater Company Record, 1973-1993, CTC.1991.01, Curtis Theater Collection, Department of Special Collections, University of Pittsburgh)
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