Producing Theater Companies
From bold experimental works to beloved classics, professional companies to community and campus groups, Pittsburgh’s producing Theater Companies offer you a rich, diverse, homegrown mix of genres and voices, making our arts scene deeper, more inclusive, and more alive.
Alumni Theater Company
Now in its 18th season, Alumni Theater Company (ATC) creates bold, theatrical work that gives fresh voice to the experience of young Black artists and highlights their rich contribution to our community. Through high-quality training, performance experience, and holistic support, we empower our members to thrive in the arts and beyond.
Alumni Theater Company
6601 Hamilton Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
Arcade Comedy Theater
Arcade Comedy Theater is a 501(c)3 non-profit theater organization located in the heart of Pittsburgh’s Cultural District that produces, presents, and educates in the art of comedy. The theater presents a variety of programming 52 weekends a year in improv, stand-up, sketch, and other comedic forms, plus a bi-monthly matinee improv show for kids. Arcade has been named “Best Place to See Live Comedy” by the readers of Pittsburgh Magazine multiple times, and has been featured in WQED, Yahoo News, and Paste Magazine.
Arcade Comedy Theater
943 Liberty Ave
Pittsburgh PA, 15222
Attack Theatre
Founded in 1994 by Michele de la Reza and Peter Kope as a collaboration between two dancers and a city, Attack Theatre seamlessly blends theater, original live music, and interdisciplinary art forms to create engaging dance performances. We create work at the intersection of art and community, resulting in productions that are personal, authentic, welcoming, and fearless.
Attack Theatre’s collaborations with Pittsburgh arts organizations include: Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Museum of Art, Andy Warhol Museum, Chamber Music of Pittsburgh, among many others. Located in the heart of Lawrenceville, Attack Theatre hosts performances, classes, and community events, serving as a hub for dance, learning, and creative community partnerships.
We are a company of artists, doers, thinkers, risk-takers, dancers, administrators, entrepreneurs, and makers. We engage audiences. We inspire children. We collaborate with our surroundings. We create dance. We crave adventure, a good challenge, and achieving something just out of our reach. And we love the journey as much as the destination.
Attack Theatre / 212 45th Street, Lawrenceville 15201
barebones productions
barebones productions is a Pittsburgh theater company whose mission is to facilitate the growth of local theater artists through the production of challenging, entertaining, thought-provoking plays and to attract new, young audiences by employing minimal production elements for maximum impact.
Barebones Black Box Theater
1211 Braddock Avenue, Braddock, PA 15104
The Becoming Arts Collective
We are The Becoming Arts Collective, a thriving theatre company of artists dedicated to bringing the transformative power of live theatre to the Pittsburgh stage.
Performs at Carnegie Stage / 25 W Main St, Carnegie, PA 15106
The bobcat players
Founded in 2002, The Bobcat Players are now in our 25th season. We are a 501 (c) (3) public charity, located in Beaver, PA. The Bobcat Players purpose is to educate the public though community theater productions, primarily in Beaver County, PA. We use actors from around Western Pennsylvania, OH, WV to perform low cost, high quality productions enabling our mission.
Traditionally, we perform classic comedies, dramas, and farces, with a sprinkling of musicals. We stage our productions (spring, summer, early fall, late fall) in the 155-seat Ed Schaughency Theater at the Beaver Area Senior High School.
Ed Schaughency Theater
1 Gypsy Glen Road
Beaver, PA 15009
Carnegie Mellon School of Drama
For over a century, the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama has been at the forefront of theatrical training, consistently producing top talent on stage and behind the scenes, from right here in Pittsburgh. CMU's School of Drama was the first, and is consistently ranked among the best degree-granting drama programs in the United States. See tomorrow's stars today!
Purnell Center for the Arts - 5000 Forbes Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15213
City Theatre
Founded in 1975, City Theatre is in its 51st season as Pittsburgh’s home for bold new plays. Located in the historic South Side on its four-building cultural campus, the company produces a season of regional and world premieres; its renowned Young Playwrights Festival, a season-long reading series of new works in progress; and the annual Momentum Festival.
City Theatre’s mission is to provide an artistic home for the development and production of contemporary plays that engage and challenge a diverse audience. With an annual average operating budget of over $3.3M, City Theatre is the largest performing arts organization not located in Pittsburgh’s downtown Cultural District.
Clare Drobot serves as Artistic Director alongside Managing Director James McNeel. City Theatre is governed by a board of 23 community volunteers (Barbara Rudiak, board president).
City Theatre Main Stage & Lillie Theatres / 1300 Bingham Street, South Side
Front Porch Theatricals
FRONT PORCH THEATRICALS is a Pittsburgh-based musical theater company recognized for producing high quality, professional musicals embracing meaningful subjects using Pittsburgh’s tremendous talent base. The Company, an IRS §501(c)(3) charitable organization that in 2016 proudly became an Allegheny Regional Asset District asset, produced Only Me in 2009; Next to Normal and In the Heights in 2012 and 2013 in association with Carnivale Theatrics; Parade in 2014; The Last Five Years and The Light in the Piazza in 2015; The Spitfire Grill and Floyd Collins in 2016; Violet and Big Fish (sold out run) in 2017, A New Brain and Grey Gardens (sold out run) in 2018, Bright Star and Fun Home in 2019 (largest season audience in our history), A Man of No Importance and Grand Hotel in 2022, Falsettos and Merrily We Roll Along in 2023, A…My Name Is Still Alice and Bandstand in 2024, Baby and Sunday in the Park with George in 2025.
The mission of Front Porch Theatricals is to provide our region with professional, high-quality musical theater productions featuring Pittsburgh's diverse actor, artistic and technical talent base. Emphasis is placed on mentoring young talent in leadership positions as well as youth through our internship/apprentice program, and in hiring creative up and coming and established local talent in music, directing, choreography, scenic, lighting, sound and costume design to create a high level professional vehicle for the acting and artistic team members to realize the vision of their project.
Resident Company at The New Hazlett Theater / 6 Allegheny Square, North Side
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Named after 20th century entertainment legends Gene Kelly and Billy Strayhorn, both natives of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kelly Strayhorn Theater (KST) is a home for creative experimentation, community dialogue, and collective action rooted in the liberation of Black and queer people. We welcome our home to all who uplift Black, Indigenous, people of color, and queer voices.
KST is an institutional arts anchor in Pittsburgh’s East End that has served the community for more than two decades. Since launching KST Presents programming in ’08, KST has been Black-led, fostering radical imagination for Black and queer arts, culture, and community in Pittsburgh by cultivating BIPOC and/or queer artists, entrepreneurs, and arts administrators, developing their careers, and shifting narratives around Black possibility.
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave; KST's Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave
Little Lake Theatre
Little Lake Theatre Company is a community theatre located just outside Pittsburgh in Canonsburg, PA. Now in Season 78, we remain proudly rooted in our origins, born in a barn, and guided by a belief that great theatre should be bold, accessible, and welcoming to all.
The Lake produces a wide-ranging season of musicals, comedies, dramas, and new work, alongside robust education programs including youth camps, classes, and our popular Senior Summer Camp. We strive to make theatre that feels alive and human, whether it’s your first visit or one of many.
At our core, the Lake is about connection: between artists and audiences, neighbors and newcomers, tradition and innovation. With a commitment to artistic excellence and community care, we continue to grow while honoring what makes us special.
Little Lake Theatre Company is a creative home for our community, where stories are shared, laughter is loud, and everyone belongs.
Little Lake Theatre / 500 Lakeside Dr. Canonsburg, PA 15317
New Hazlett Theater
The New Hazlett Theater is a performing arts center and creative home where nothing’s off the table and no idea is too outrageous. We believe great art comes from bold questions, deep trust, and the freedom to imagine without limits. We offer thoughtful collaboration and fresh perspective without ever diluting the integrity of the art.
The New Hazlett is home to our self-produced Community Supported Art (CSA) Performance Series, the CSA: Off the Page Reading Series, and our Resident Companies: Texture Contemporary Ballet, Front Porch Theatricals, Prime Stage Theatre, and Kente Arts Alliance—together making space for risk-takers, storytellers, and artists shaping what’s next.
New Hazlett Theater / 6 Allegheny Square E, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
New Horizon Theater
New Horizon Theater, Inc. (NHT) was founded with the mission to bring to the greater Pittsburgh area consistent, high-quality cultural events, reflecting the African-American points of view, and to provide an ongoing venue for ethnic writers and performers to further their professional development.
Performs at O'Reilly Theater / 621 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222
The Old schoolhouse players
The Old Schoolhouse Players is a community theater group founded in 1992, whose focus is to bring quality theatrical endeavors to the Hickory and Washington County areas. Since its inception, OSP has presented over 100 dramatic and musical productions. 2026 marks our 34th season. The theater stages its productions in the historically preserved Mount Pleasant Township Community Center, aka the Old Schoolhouse.
Bud Allison Memorial Auditorium at Mount Pleasant Community Center
20 Wabash Ave, Hickory, PA 15340
Paragon theater
Paragon Theatre is now in its 22 year producing high quality shows for the Pittsburgh area. In 2025 we opened our own theatre in Coraopolis. Winner of five 2025 Broadway World Pittsburgh awards including Best Musical and Best Direction of a Musical!
Paragon Theatre
1321 State Avenue
Coraopolis, PA 15101
Pittsburgh CLO
Pittsburgh CLO has been a driving force behind the preservation, creation and promotion of live musical theater since 1946. As one of the largest regional musical theater organizations in the country, it is fortunate for the yearly support of nearly 200,000 audience members. In addition to producing fresh new productions of Broadway classics, the not-for-profit’s mission is to develop new works and showcase emerging talent, and has been credited with launching the careers of numerous artists such as Billy Porter, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Rob Marshall, Kathleen Marshall, Rob Ashford, Bernadette Peters and Shirley Jones.
Its extensive education efforts include the Pittsburgh CLO Academy of Musical Theater; a university internship program; New Horizons, and in-school programs Gallery of Heroes and Creative Vision. Other ongoing initiatives include the Construction Center for the Arts, the Gene Kelly Awards for Excellence in High School Musical Theater and SPARK, a festival for new small-cast musicals launched in 2018. The organization also founded the National High School Musical Theatre Awards/ Jimmy Awards®. To further its mission to grow the art form, Pittsburgh CLO has been involved with 31 Broadway shows (32 Tony Awards®), and in 2014 produced the world premiere of An American in Paris in Paris, then on Broadway, where it won 4 Tony Awards®, and in London, Tokyo, Pittsburgh and throughout the U.S. and Europe. Pittsburgh CLO is the subject of a film starring Jeff Goldblum titled "Pittsburgh."
Pittsburgh CLO performs across the Cultural District, at the Benedum, Byham, and Greer Theaters
Pittsburgh International Classic Theatre
PICT Classic Theatre is an internationally recognized, non-profit theatre company committed presenting the highest quality productions for the widest audience. Our productions feature innovative approaches to great classics, we present new works by local playwrights, Irish plays and international productions.
Performs at Carnegie Stage / 25 W Main St, Carnegie, PA 15106
Pittsburgh Opera
Pittsburgh Opera celebrates its 87th season in 2025-26. Established by five intrepid women in 1939, Pittsburgh Opera is viewed as one of the most vibrant opera organizations in the U.S. It boasts a rich artistic tradition of classic and contemporary operas, including world premieres; outstanding educational programs; an acclaimed Resident Artist training program; and a progressive outlook toward the future as a true community partner and resource.
Performs at the Benedum Center for the Performing Arts
237 7th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Pittsburgh Public Theater
Founded in 1974 by Margaret Rieck, Ben Shaktman, and Joan Apt, Pittsburgh Public Theater was established to give Pittsburgh a world-class regional theater to complement the city's other cultural assets. As Western Pennsylvania's flagship theater company, The Public spent 24 years on the North Side (in what is now the New Hazlett Theater) before moving to its Michael Graves-designed O'Reilly Theater in the Cultural District in 2000.
Annually, The Public produces masterfully realized productions spanning American and international classics, musicals, contemporary works, and world premieres. The Public was among the first regional theaters to produce August Wilson's complete "Century Cycle," including the world premiere of King Hedley II, with Wilson's local predecessor Rob Penny serving as its first playwright-in-residence. The Public has attracted national artists—Cherry Jones, Mandy Patinkin, Ethan Hawke, Lynn Redgrave, Mark Rylance, Jean Smart, Billy Porter, and many others—creating work alongside the region's own actors, designers, and technicians. By pairing world-class talent with homegrown artists, The Public has strengthened Pittsburgh's creative workforce and built a pipeline of excellence that continues to shape the city's artistic future.
The Public's season offers more than 200 performances for 40,000+ audience members annually, generating an estimated $8.8 million economic impact, supporting 288 full-time jobs, and contributing over $800,000 in local and state tax revenue. As the region's premiere theater destination and an anchor for Pittsburgh's Cultural District, Pittsburgh Public Theater serves as a cultural cornerstone for Southwestern Pennsylvania—producing transformative theater, nurturing artistic innovation, and ensuring that its downtown home remains a vibrant and welcoming public space for all. Shaunda Miles McDill currently serves as the Managing Director, and Krysia Kubiak is the Chair of the Board of Trustees.
Performs at O'Reilly Theater / 621 Penn Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company is rooted in the African American community, and its mission is to produce the works of local racially and culturally diverse playwrights as well as Pittsburgh themed plays. We provide a nurturing environment for all who work on and off the stage, and build and serve a culturally diverse audience that can strengthen our civic community. We believe that bridges are built when diverse groups of people work together to make and experience the arts, and the stories that are told through the arts.
We seek to nurture a racially and culturally diverse community of theatre professionals, while supporting a similarly diverse management staff and board of directors who, working together, develop audiences that reflect the diversity of Pittsburgh’s community.
Our goal is to be a center of learning, discovery and connection for emerging and established local theatre artists. We work to encourage new playwriting, directing, acting and designing in Pittsburgh, especially among people who may not have the opportunity to see their work produced. This includes emerging artists, artists from marginalized communities, and people who are self-taught or new to the arts.
Performs at Madison Elementary School / 3401 Milwaukee Street,
Pittsburgh, Pa 15219
Pittsburgh Savoyards
The Pittsburgh Savoyards, Inc. is a community-based, non-profit theater company funded primarily by local contributions and ticket sales.
We operate for the purposes of perpetuating the heritage of Gilbert & Sullivan comic operas, and providing a hands-on opportunity for interested persons to learn about and experience musical theater. While our focus is the performance of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, we also perform non-Gilbert and Sullivan classic works throughout the year. The Company has been in existence since 1938, and is informally affiliated with a number of similar groups throughout the country.
The Margaret Partee Performing Arts Center 523 Lincoln Avenue Bellevue, PA 15202
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall (ACFL&MH) 300 Beechwood Avenue Carnegie, PA 15106
Prime Stage Theater
Our Mission: The mission of Prime Stage is to bring great literature and history to life through the transformative process of live theatre – to entertain, inform, enrich and inspire audiences with engaging programs that deliver long-lasting benefits to theatregoers, families, students and educators of our region.
Vision: Prime Stage employs the engaging immediacy of live theatre and cultural outreach programs to enrich the lives of our patrons, fostering empathy and community connection, opening the mind to new perspectives, and instilling qualities of imagination, creativity, curiosity and wonder.
Education: Within our theatre-based educational programs in the school system, we partner with dedicated teachers to foster literacy, critical thinking, interpersonal communication, and the love of reading as a lifelong pursuit.
In the Community: A hallmark of Prime Stage is how we consistently enrich the artistic and educational productions with community-wide programs presented alongside local partners.
Resident Company of New Hazlett Theater / 6 Allegheny Square E, Pittsburgh, PA 15212
Quantum Theatre
Quantum Theatre is a company of progressive, professional artists dedicated to producing intimate and sophisticated theatrical experiences in uncommon settings, exploring universal themes of truth, beauty, and human relationships in unexpected ways.
An experiment that has continued for 35 years, Quantum is a company that refuses to accept usual restrictions, and embraces the challenge of making something new. We work behind doors normally closed to the public. And for one month, we swing those doors wide open. Behind them you’ll find directors, writers, actors, and artists, all brought together by Quantum like no one else can, to produce something entirely different.
Sites and productions vary. We’ve performed unique spins on classic plays at national historic landmarks, baroque operas in basements, and completely original works in gilded skyscrapers. We are aided by our environmental approach, producing our work where the art finds a foothold
in its physical environment, melding them to create the full experience we embark on.
We believe theatre can move people like no other art form can. We give voice to artists who want to communicate and together, make theatre that moves you.
All productions are site-specific.
RealTime Arts
Founded in 2015 in Pittsburgh, we create unique theatrical works that celebrate real people and real places—works that emphasize the interconnectedness of all human beings. Our values are evident in the work we make as well as how we make it: collaboratively and collectively. As a community-fueled theater company, we reach deep into local networks for partnership, talent, and inspiration. Every project is created by a diverse constellation of individuals with knowledge and experience reaching well beyond the arts, united by the story we’re telling together.
All Productions are Site-Specific in the Pittsburgh area
riverfront theater company
We pride ourselves on being part of the community, a place where enthusiastic volunteers can work and play together, educate and mentor young people, and create quality, affordable theater. We strive to be a welcoming, and encouraging group who have created a comfortable and easily accessible theater experience for actors and theater tech people throughout the Pittsburgh region.
Performs in the the Peirce Theatre and Allegheny Rivertrail Park
South Park Theatre
South Park Theatre is located in the heart of Allegheny County's beautiful South Park, producing plays and musicals for adults and families on its intimate indoor Mainstage, and classic fairytales brought to life on the outdoor Children's Theatre stage. Founded in 1995 as a small summer-stock company, South Park Theatre has grown into a vibrant, community-centered theater with year-round productions and educational programming.
South Park Theatre is located at the intersection of Brownsville Rd. & Corrigan Dr. in South Park, PA 15129.
Stage 62
Stage 62 is the nonprofit theater company-in-residence at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall in Carnegie, PA. What started in Bethel Park in 1962 (and yes, that’s where the name comes from!) as an adult education theater project has become a thriving community theater company producing shows continuously for more than six decades.
Our season includes four productions: a show for young audiences in February and a musical or play in May, July, and November. Outside of our mainstage productions, we host concerts and cabarets, special fundraising events, and exclusive events and social gatherings for our membership.
Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall, 300 Beechwood Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15106
Steel City Shakespeare Center
Steel City Shakespeare Center has produced intimate, fast-paced, and interactive performances for Pittsburgh audiences for over 10 years. Serving the West View and North Hills community and beyond, our mission is to engage and inspire the community through works of Shakespeare and other classical literature, folklore, spoken word, and new plays.
We believe theatre should be accessible to all with no barrier to entry.
The West View Hubworks
435 Perry Hwy
West View, PA 15229
During the summer, they perform in various parks and greenspaces throughout West View and Ross Township.
The Theatre Factory
The Theatre Factory is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the celebration and preservation of the performing arts in Westmoreland County. We are proud to provide a home for actors, singers, musicians, designers, and artists throughout the community. Your support makes our work possible – including our Kidworks program for the education of young performers, and our scholarship program that benefits local high school seniors
The Theatre Factory
235 Cavitt Ave
Trafford, PA 15085
Theatre Sans Serif
Theatre Sans Serif is dedicated to bringing theater to places where it would not normally be found. By doing so we hope to lower the barriers and create art for, by, and with the people.
All Productions are Site-Specific in the Pittsburgh area
University of Pittsburgh - Pitt Stages
Pitt Stages, the in-house theatre company of the Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh, presents an annual season consisting of 6 Mainstage productions and one-act plays. The productions in the 2025-2026 season run a range of classical reinterpretations, dark comedies, and an avant-garde musical that celebrate change in its many forms—personal, physical, societal, and fantastical.
The Department of Theatre Arts at the University of Pittsburgh operates with the understanding that the arts and education can change the world for the better. The Department of Theatre Arts and Pitt Stages’ productions offer academic courses and immersive theatre arts experiences to all Pitt students, regardless of academic focus. Pitt Stages produces shows that pair world-class faculty with aspiring theater-makers and enthusiasts. Theatre Arts is proud to present shows that represent the diversity of both the University of Pittsburgh campus and the greater Pittsburgh community. The Department of Theatre Arts is a NAST-certified program that trains students for careers in theatre or those that can utilize theatre’s many useful skillsets.
University of Pittsburgh Oakland Campus
Richard E. Rauh Studio Theatre
[Basement] Cathedral of Learning
4200 Fifth Avenue | Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Henry Heymann Theatre
4301 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Charity Randall Theatre
4301 Forbes Avenue | Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Vigilance Theater
Vigilance Theater Group is an immersive theater company focused on original, interactive works for small audiences.
All Productions are Site-Specific in the Pittsburgh area