Pittsburgh Musical Theater
327 S Main Street Pittsburgh, PA
15220
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Pittsburgh's Off-Broadway venue in the West End
Originally built in 1915 as the St. James School, The Gargaro Theater was rededicated via a Board of Directors gift in 2015 in honor of our Founding Artistic Director Kenneth V. Gargaro. The theater is now known as Pittsburgh's Off-Broadway venue in the West End, offering a unique and up-close perspective to exciting professional and conservatory shows.
Professional Production, 2019
Professional Production, 2022
Young Artist Production, 2020
The West End Canopy opened in 2020, bringing an outdoor, open air experience to patrons and further expanding PMT's community impact and reach.
Amanda Felicia Foote & Stephen Foster Harris, 2020
Young Artist Production, Summer Musical Theater, 2021
Professional Production, 2022
Originally built in 1903 as the Gayety Theater, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust purchased this 1300-seat venue, then called the Fulton Theater, in 1988. The Trust renovated and reopened the Fulton Theater in 1991. The theater was renamed the Byham Theater in 1995, in recognition of a gift from William C. and Carolyn M. Byham. Today, the Byham Theater is home to a wide variety of performing arts, including dance, music, theater, film, and family-friendly events held throughout the year.
Description provided by the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Image credit (above) belongs to the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust & Google Maps.
Young Artist Production, 2022
Professional Production, 2019
The Hazlett Theater was built in 1889 as the first Carnegie Music Hall and was dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison. Designed in a Richardson Romanesque style, the Theater is part of an impressive historic landmark that also housed one of the first Carnegie Free Libraries in the country.
The music hall was also a place of religious retreat. William Henry Conley and Charles Russell, both born in the Northside, were co-founders of Watch Tower and Tract Society, which became the legal corporation for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. The Watch Tower congregation would study and preach at the Allegheny Square 6 throughout the early 1900’s.
When the hall was threatened by demolition in 1967, the community intervened and funds were secured to renovate the Theater space, featuring a flexible stage and intimate audience chamber with movable scaffold seating. The Hazlett Theater was re-named in 1980 in honor of Theodore L. Hazlett Jr., a prominent civic leader who worked with Mayor David Lawrence, authored much of the city’s smog legislation, and was an enthusiastic supporter of the arts. The Hazlett Theater was home to the Pittsburgh Public Theater for 24 seasons from 1974 until 1999, bringing considerable traffic to the area.
But when PPT moved downtown to the Cultural District in 1999, the neighborhood business community suffered considerable losses. The Hazlett Theater was transformed in 2004 into the New Hazlett Theater with the support of the local arts community. Today the nonprofit theater is a thriving and active community asset that presents a variety of performance art disciplines to the Pittsburgh community.
Description provided by the New Hazlett Theater. Image credit (above) belongs to the New Hazlett Theater.
Young Artist Production, 2018
Young Artist Production, Summer Musical Theater, 2019
