City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh’s home for contemporary plays located on the South Side, is thrilled to announce the directors for its 2025/2026 season as well as changes to the artistic department structure. In the fall of 2021, City Theatre announced a new shared leadership model, promoting artistic staff Clare Drobot and Monteze Freeland to co-lead the organization alongside artistic director Marc Masterson and managing director, James McNeel. After Masterson retired in 2024, Drobot and Freeland shared the Co-Artistic Director title for the 2024/25 season. With Freeland moving on from City Theatre to serve as Artistic Director at Alumni Theater Company in May, the board of directors has voted to make Drobot the sole Artistic Director of City Theatre , leading alongside Managing Director James McNeel. “There is no greater champion for new plays in Pittsburgh than Clare Drobot,” said Board President Barbara Rudiak , “and we are thrilled to appoint h...
Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre presents another U.S. premiere to launch PICT’s 2025-26 season.
First Lady U.S. Premiere By Sedef Ecer, translated by Amelia Parenteau October 2 – October 11, 2025 Carnegie Stage Directed by Adil Mansoor Cast: *Elizabeth Elias Huffman as Ishtar Milia Ayache as Yasmine Doren Elias as Elish *Treasure Treasure as Gazal Production Designers: Sasha Jin Schwartz – Scenic Designer Madeleine Steineck – Lighting Designer Scott Andrew – Projection Designer Anthony Del Grosso – Sound Designer Alex Keplar – Properties Designer About the play: FIRST LADY is a satirical romp through the last vestiges of power of an imaginary Mesopotamian country. Queen Ishtar lives in a bubble, oblivious to the uprising of an enslaved people. Half goddess in a sanitized cocoon, half guinea pig in an experimental aquarium, she will be the unwitting catalyst for an explosive reaction. A revolution is brewing in the streets, but no one told the First Lady, who is enjoying a holiday at her summer palace with Gazal, her beloved trans...