City Theatre Announces Updated 2020-21 Season
The Pittsburgh company will present a drive-in festival, virtual content, and live productions.
The Pittsburgh company will present a drive-in festival, virtual content, and live productions.
Offerings this week range from Noël Coward to the avant-garde, from kids’ theatre to a virtual fringe fest.
The series kicks off with short solo plays by women of color in celebration of the centennial of the 19th Amendment.
A series of new-play festivals are rolling out this week, as are a murder mystery musical, some online book clubs, and BD Wong in ‘Songs From an Unmade Bed.’
The company’s two-year exploration of Paula Vogel, Lynn Nottage, and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins will be presented as audio plays and podcasts.
The San Francisco company will produce a radio version of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ a film of a Heather Christian musical, plus five in-person productions.
The New York-based studio will be available for rent for theatre artists hoping to create high-quality digital theatre.
The 4-day streaming event will be the culmination of the work of 6 playwrights, 6 directors, and 18 actors creating plays in 48 hours.
If the work of criticism is engaging empathetically with the world, the work is never done, as this year’s Zoom-only National Critics Institute affirmed.
The company will present virtual programming this fall, plus live performances starting in December.