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Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company

Our City. Our Voices.
Poster for The Bluegrass Mile at the International Black Theatre Festival

Dear Supporters of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company,

Please join me for a very special fundraising performance of The Bluegrass Mile on Saturday July 27th. We will have a 3:30pm final dress performance prior to our departure to the International Black Theatre Festival. Please help us by being our test audience before we embark on this very important engagement.

Seating is limited to 50 patrons for this event, and refreshments will be provided. Please consider joining us. Tickets are available here.

Best,

Mark Clayton Southers
Producing Artistic Director
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company

Next Up:
August Wilson's
Radio Golf

 

Radio Golf trophy imageRADIO GOLF

By August Wilson
Directed by Montae Russell
Outdoors at August Wilson House
August 10 - September 14 2024
Friday & Saturday at 8 PM, Thursday & Sunday at 7 PM
Saturdays at 2 PM indoors at Madison Arts Center

Real estate developer Harmond Wilks is determined to become the first black mayor of Pittsburgh, on a mission to revive his blighted childhood neighborhood. As Wilks confronts characters from the past, he is forced to question how pursuing change could put his neighborhood’s history at risk.

Tickets now on sale!

 

Details & Tickets

Featuring:

Dominique Briggs
Rich Dickson
Roosevelt Watts Jr.
Mike Traylor
Karla Payne
Maurice Redwood
Sam Lothard
Details & Tickets

Listen to WQED’s Voice of the Arts podcast's interview with Mark Clayton Southers on PPTCO’s 2024 season.

Later In Our 2024 Season

 

festival mask logoTHEATRE FESTIVAL IN BLACK & WHITE

At Madison Arts Center, 3401 Milwaukee Street
October 5th - 27th 2024

Eight one-act plays by local playwrights in two programs.

Festival Coordinator Ashley Southers
 

More Information

 

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company thanks the following for supporting our season of plays and special projects:

Mid Atlantic Arts Regional Resilience Fund 
Hillman Foundation
Allegheny Regional Asset District
The Heinz Endowments:
Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh
Opportunity Fund
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
The Pittsburgh Foundation
Richard King Mellon Foundation
Eden Hall Foundation
And our Donor's Circle and other individual donors
Thank you!

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