Lights Out by Steven Hallock, directed by Cheryl El-Walker, is our second world premiere. A power outage that stalls a Pittsburgh trolley in a tunnel beneath Mount Washington on a late Friday night leads to a set of encounters among a train of strangers that spark fear, accusations, confessions, guilt, and love as the riders share thoughts of wisdom, philosophy, music and religion, mixed in with a few drinks and some jazz and blues riffs. Performances are April 1-16
Hercules Didn’t Wade in the Water by Michael A. Jones, directed by Wali Jamal, is our last mainstage premiere of the season (May 6-21). It is 2005. Two men cling for life on a rooftop, surrounded by murky water, festered with disease and the unknown. Two women are hundreds of miles away, striving to see their dreams of life, love and the pursuit of happiness come to fruition. All of this set against the threat of one of America’s greatest disasters.
The 2017 Pittsburgh Playwrights’ 13th Annual Theatre Festival in Black & White takes on a new format. Middle and high school students will submit original one-act plays, and if the student’s script is selected, they’ll work with dramaturges to improve their scripts and then see them produced at Pittsburgh Playwrights during the Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival, directed by theater professionals.Script submission details will be available on our website www.pghplaywrights.org starting in early 2017.
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