The 2025/2026 season will feature three world premieres, both national and local producing partnerships, the return of playwright Lauren Gunderson with a new take on an American classic, and City Theatre’s first-ever revival of a favorite show from its history. Plus, the season includes two laugh-out-loud selections with a Broadway comedy and the return of America’s longest-running improv troupe to Pittsburgh.

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Single tickets will be on sale in August 2025 and reservations for groups of 10+ for the season can be made beginning in June 2025. 

Directed by Kim Weild 
ASL Translation & Direction of Artistic Sign Language by MoMo Holt. 
A National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere 
September 20 – October 12, 2025
A chance meeting in sunny Athens, Greece has Chap and Evan falling in love. The catch? Both women are already attached—just not to each other. An epic journey of language, desire, and dreaming, Another Kind of Silence is a bilingual and bicultural world premiere in English and American Sign Language that will inspire the heart with its wanderlust and wonder. Experience one of the most ambitious productions in City Theatre history as it begins its journey from Pittsburgh to stops theatres around the country. 

Directed by Kaja Dunn 
A Rolling World Premiere 
November 15 – December 7, 2025
From the playwright of The Revolutionists and the Christmas at Pemberley series comes the world premiere of a new adaptation of a beloved classic. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women explores the parallel lives of the author’s family and the iconic March sisters – Jo, Beth, Meg, and Amy — in a heartwarming coming of age tale of empowerment, family, resilience – and the creation of an American literary masterpiece, with Alcott herself center stage. 
 

Co-commissioned and originally produced by City Theatre; Northlight Theatre, Chicago, IL; People’s Light, Malvern, PA; and TheatreWorks, Palo Alto, CA. 

Directed by Dexter J. Singleton 
A Co-World Premiere 
January 17 – February 8, 2026
Before they were icons, they were two young men washing dishes in Harlem. It’s 1943 and Foxy (soon to be Redd Foxx) befriends fellow dishwater Little, better known, many years later, as Malcolm X. In a summer of heartbreak, uprisings, and leftovers, the two shape each other into the legends they are known to be through a revolutionary mix of humor and heart. 
 

A Co-World Premiere produced by TheatreSquared (Fayetteville, AR), City Theatre, Virginia Stage Company (Norfolk, VA), and Dallas Theater Center. 

Directed by Adil Mansoor 
Pittsburgh Premiere 
March 7 – 29, 2026
Fresh from Broadway (though detoured from DC – Google it), this all too timely, bitingly funny comedy takes place during several board meetings at an ultra-progressive California school proud of its inclusivity and commitment to consensus – at least until a mumps outbreak reveals varying views (like, everyone’s) on vaccination. In “one of the funniest plays to open [all] year” (The New York Times) parents dance the line of advocating for their children while trying not to offend…anyone. 

Directed by Robert Ramirez       
May 2 – June 7, 2026
Downtown at the Greer Cabaret (655 Penn Avenue) 
A “Contemporary Classic” first staged at City Theatre in 2003, Hedwig and the Angry Inch will electrify the Greer Cabaret downtown in our first-ever revival of a legendary show adored by audiences and hailed by critics.  The Tony Award-winning, fierce and energetic musical follows the life, loves, and heartbreaks of the legendary Hedwig, an East German rock and roll goddess. Funny, inspiring, and brimming with energy, Hedwig is a love story to those who have too much fight in them to quit.  
 
Presented in partnership with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust.