Pittsburgh Playhouse

In 1933 a group of noted local residents joined forces to establish a playhouse in this western Pennsylvania city to offer a more wide‐ranging repertory than was available at the surviving legitimate theatre. At first it used the stage of the Frick Training School for Teachers, then performed in a converted speakeasy before opening its own complex of three theatres in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. After many years as one of the nation's most successful community theatres, the troupe attempted to go professional in the 1960s but only met with financial collapse. Reopened as an affiliate of Point Park College, the playhouse is kept busy with semiprofessional, student, and children's theatre productions.