2024 – 2025 Season
City Theatre Announces 50th Season!
ABOUT THE SUBSCRIPTION SEASON SHOWS:
Main Stage
Main Stage
November 20 – December 22, 2024
The Real James Bond…Was Dominican
Live Music Performed by Jonathan Gomez
Lillie Theatre
January 18 – February 16, 2025
Pittsburgh Premiere
March 8 – 30, 2025
Pittsburgh Premiere
April 19 – May 11, 202
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ABOUT THE 2024-2025 CITY EVENTS:
City Rewinds: 50 Years of New Plays
Monday evenings throughout the season: September 30, November 18, January 27,
February 24, and April 7
City Theatre digs into its production archives and solicits feedback from audience members to curate a decade-by-decade retrospective of its most-remembered plays. Patrons will have the opportunity to revisit and experience a staged reading of a script (and artists) from each organizational era. A special “City Rewinds” subscription takes attendees on a magical “playback” tour of seminal works from the organization’s first 50 years.
Ghosted: Tales from Carson Street
Conceived and Created by Clare Drobot & Monteze Freeland
Lillie Theatre
October 24 – November 2, 2024
Nothing prepares you for fall more than a good ghost story as City Theatre crafts a unique evening of original tales, live music, libations, and Halloween treats. Price includes a cocktail/mocktail and just the right amount of shock-inducing guest stars and surprises for the season. Find your scary on the South Side this autumn.
Sister Strikes Again: Late Nite Catechism 2
by Maripat Donovan
Lillie Theatre
June 5 – 29, 2025
Kimberly Richards returns as “Sister” 20 years after her City Theatre debut! It’s up to Sister to save the souls of those assembled – aka the audience! Beginning with an overview of heaven and hell as a Catholic version of Chutes and Ladders and moving onto her proclamation of new sins for the new millennium, Sister is never hesitant to tell us where we’ve gone wrong. No one is excused from Sister’s firm belief that ‘sometimes we feel guilty because we are guilty’.
Young Playwrights Festival
written by local middle and high school students
Lillie Theatre
October 8 – 20, 2024 (public performances, October 19 & 20)
City Theatre’s signature arts education program returns for its 25th anniversary festival, featuring professional actors, directors, and designers as they bring to full production the words of six area middle and high school students whose works have been selected by a national committee reviewing submissions to the Young Playwrights Contest.
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ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS:
Young Playwrights at 25
Honoring 25 years of City Theatre’s long-running in-school education program, the Young Playwrights Contest and Festival, a “class reunion” will take place during the 2024 run of the Festival on Friday, October 18, 2024, inviting alums, students, parents, and other partners together again. Details to follow.
The 50th Anniversary Benefit Weekend
City Theatre will culminate its 2024-25 season and mark 50 years of history with a weekend-long celebration featuring a unique gala and concert experience embedded across the organization’s South Side campus. Save the date for May 16-17, 2025.