12 Facts About Pittsburgh Playhouse

Pittsburgh Playhouse is Point Park University's performing arts center located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Pittsburgh Civic Playhouse was founded in 1933 as a non-profit community theater.

Pittsburgh Playhouse organized a complete season for 1934 including The Silver Wedding, Morning Becomes Electra, and The Female of the Species.

Pittsburgh Playhouse was a civic theater company that was open to the community to perform alongside professional and semiprofessional actors.

Pittsburgh Playhouse's staging more challenging works such as From Morning to Midnight lead to an "art versus box office" argument with the executive board and led to Gallende's firing in 1937.

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In 1965 William Ball joined with the Pittsburgh Playhouse and founded the American Conservatory Theater with support from Carnegie Mellon University, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

The change was dramatic, the plays were considered controversial, and Ball lost support of his Pittsburgh Playhouse backers regarding the direction of the theater company.

Support of Point Park has enabled the Pittsburgh Playhouse to remain a cultural entity even with the financial setbacks, including the downsizing of much of the tradition of Pittsburgh Playhouse.

Pittsburgh Playhouse was able to include a ballet company in addition to director's hour.

Shortly after, the Pittsburgh Playhouse rented a 19th-century German social club building at the corner of Hamlet Street and Craft Avenue in the Oakland neighborhood.

The Pittsburgh Playhouse eventually expanded to three buildings around the corner onto Craft Avenue.

The original Pittsburgh Playhouse complex had many limitations, including being a converted set of buildings located far from the Point Park University campus.