{"id":302656,"date":"2026-10-08T22:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302656\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T22:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T22:48:08","slug":"confluence-theater-has-announced-its-2027-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/302656\/","title":{"rendered":"Confluence Theater has announced its 2027 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Confluence Theater, the name of the theater company that brings together the Pittsburgh Public Theater and the Pittsburgh CLO, has announced its shows for the 2027 season.<\/p>\n<p>The season kicks off with the 1963 musical comedy \u201cShe Loves Me\u201d at the O\u2019Reilly Theater starting Feb. 2. It will be at the theater through Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of the season will include:<\/p>\n<p>-\u201cPurpose,\u201d March 30 to April 18 at the O\u2019Reilly Theater.<\/p>\n<p>A Pulitzer- and Tony Award-winner, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins\u2019s \u201cPurpose\u201d follows a family built on a civil rights legacy \u2014 a patriarch who marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a son fresh from political scandal, and a matriarch guarding the family name at any cost. Get them alone at a homecoming dinner, and the knives come out.<\/p>\n<p>-\u201cLes Miserables,\u201d June 15-27 at the Byham Theater<\/p>\n<p>One of the most produced musicals of all time, \u201cLes Miserables\u201d is about a hungry man, a stolen loaf of bread, and 19 lost years that lead to one unexpected revolution.<\/p>\n<p>-\u201cCabaret,\u201d July 20 to Aug. 15 at the O\u2019Reilly Theater<\/p>\n<p>Inside Berlin\u2019s Kit Kat Club in 1929, there\u2019s a world of glittering decadence, forbidden romance, and dazzling spectacle, even as darkness gathers just outside the door. <\/p>\n<p>-\u201cMatt and Ben.\u201d Aug. 4-29 at the Greer Cabaret Theater<\/p>\n<p>Two best friends. One stuck screenplay. And then, a screenplay falls from the ceiling of Ben\u2019s apartment, titled \u201cGood Will Hunting.\u201d \u201cMatt and Ben\u201d is a comedy that imagines the real (definitely not real) story behind Hollywood\u2019s most famous friendship.<\/p>\n<p>-\u201cThe Comedy of Errors,\u201d Sept. 14 to Oct. 10, 2027, at the O\u2019Reilly Theater<\/p>\n<p>Two sets of long-lost twins wander into Ephesus on the very same day, and by lunchtime nobody can tell their spouse from a stranger, their boss from an imposter, or their oldest friend from someone they\u2019ve never met. \u201cThe Comedy of Errors\u201d a farce by William Shakespeare filled with mistaken identity and madcap mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>Season tickets will go on sale later this fall. For information, go online to confluencetheater.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Confluence Theater, the name of the theater company that brings together the Pittsburgh Public Theater and the Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[112105,116412,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-302656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-2027-season","tag-confluence-theater","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}