Review: 'Ironbound', humorous and thought-provoking"...credit the actors and protean director Tracy Brigden (is there anything she can’t direct?)" - Pgh Post-Gazette
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Review: ‘Midsummer,’ an Urban Fairy Tale, Comes to Hartford
" I was carried away by this TheatreWorks production, directed by Tracy Brigden with an awareness of the sweetness inside this spiked candy of a play" . - NY Times
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Stage Review: Praises for 'Hand to God'"Yes, Hand to God is as funny as you've heard, and if you haven't heard, you must live too far away from the South Side to ehar the gales of laughter. But "gales" isn't strong enough - make it tornadoes."
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Stage review: Public Theater's 'Disgraced' expertly builds toward explosive twist"The well-cast Public Theater production, directed by Tracy Brigden (also artistic director at City Theatre), measures up to the challenge." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The Monster in the Hall "Tracy Brigden does breathtaking work as the director. Moving in lockstep with Greig's purpose, she's fashioned a show in which the individual parts are just as remarkable as the solid whole. " - Pittsburgh City Paper
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Stage review: City Theatre's 'Last Match' is a win-win"The clever and effective conceit of “The Last Match,” as directed by Tracy Brigden, is how it sums up the lives of the players by flowing from a U.S. Open match to flashbacks and back again, with all the insight of the best Sports Illustrated articles." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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The Heinz Endowments Q&A with Tracy Brigden
"Artistic Director Tracy Brigden describes how the nonprofit performing arts organization continues to invest in new work and to raise awareness about what it has to offer. " - The Heinz Endowments
Women's voices in theater: Who gets to tell our stories?
“While we are certainly conscious of having gender parity on our stages at City Theatre, the point is, it doesn’t take that much effort,” said Ms. Brigden. “Every season’s crop of new plays I have read has an abundance of exceptional plays by women to choose from, and it is only a matter of selecting which ones can fit into the season. The disconnect comes when an artistic director — consciously or subconsciously — feels that a play by a woman, or about a woman, is an outlier to the human condition and therefore is an anomaly in the season, not standard fare.”
Review: City Theatre’s 'Outside Mullingar' shinesCity Theatre has unveiled a winning production of John Patrick Shanley’s “Outside Mullingar,” the Tony-nominated comedy that arrives on the South Side on the heels of its New York premiere... - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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'A Broadway Holiday' musical benefit held for City Theatre"Broadway stars Billy Porter (“Kinky Boots”) and Anthony Rapp (“Rent,” “If/Then”) returned to their “artistic home” to lend their voices to a fundraiser that also featured local performers ..." - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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