• Momentum Festival: New Work Slam

    Momentum Festival
    City Theatre Company 1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    Back by popular demand, the New Work Slam will kick of the 2026 Momentum Festival! The event features excerpts of work in development from writers across the Pittsburgh region. Come experience a sampling of local scripts and songs as well as getting a special preview of artists & shows being featured in the 2026 Momentum […]

  • Momentum Festival: The Boy Who Lived Among the Stars and The Girl Who Looked Up

    Momentum Festival
    City Theatre Company 1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    Laurie is a boy who can walk on the stars through people’s dreams. One day, he arrives in Saya's dream, only to have the stars and himself fall out of the sky! When Saya wakes up, suddenly Laurie is there in her room with her and the two must solve the mystery of the fallen stars […]

  • Momentum Festival: (this smoky city) our sunlite’s grove 

    Momentum Festival
    City Theatre Company 1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    At the edge of an old U.S. mill town, Diamond and Edi Ya work in an amusement park dripping with ghosts. Carrying stories of the places their grandparents could not enter and memories of long summers spent riding coasters and losing childhood, these chosen kin try to make sense of grief in a place of […]

  • Momentum Festival: Swallowing Beyoncé

    Momentum Festival
    City Theatre Company 1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    Free Swallowing Beyoncéby Ayibatari Owei directed by Marco RiveraSunday, December 13 at 1:00pmApril 28, 2025: A day that’ll never be forgotten for its sheer iconicness. A day that taught friends and enemies to embrace their differences. The day that Beyoncé commenced her Cowboy Carter Tour. Swallowing Beyoncé is a dark comedy about a Black, queer (and toxic) friend […]

  • Momentum Festival: Rift

    Momentum Festival
    City Theatre Company 1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    Riftby Gabriel Jason Deandirected by Pirronne YousefzadehSunday, December 13 at 7:00pmA work of fiction, Rift is inspired by actual events in the life of playwright Gabriel Jason Dean. It follows two brothers—one a progressive novelist, the other a convicted murderer and high-ranking member of a white supremacist prison gang–who are united through their traumatic childhoods. Now adults, […]

  • Momentum Festival: The Break

    Momentum Festival
    City Theatre Company 1300 Bingham Street, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

    The Breakby Michael Kooman and Chris Dimonddirected by Daina Michelle Griffithmusic direction by Rick EdingerMonday, December 14 at 7:00pmThis brand-new rock musical is a spicy rom com with a healthy dose of heart.Sam and Charlie have been together since freshman year of college. They love each other…but do they? As the marriage question looms, it’s […]