A Premiere.
Presented by: Promising Playwrights
Benefit: Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater
4 New Plays. 4 Readings
Saturday, May 2 and Sunday, May 3, 2026
Cabaret Theater
Madison Arts and Entertainment Center
(Not part of PPTCO’s season subscription.)
Goodnight Embryos
By Maureen McGranaghan
Saturday, May 2, 1 PM to 3 PM
Directed by Sheila McKenna
Goodnight Embryos is the journey, by turns comic and dramatic, of two women over thirteen years as they raise their son and grapple with what to do with their remaining embryos from IVF. Belle longs for a bigger family, but Em cherishes what they have. Meanwhile, the Embryo haunts and goads them.
Spitting Image
By Anthony McKay
Saturday, May 2, 2026, 6 PM to 8 PM
Directed by Gregory Lehane
To please her dominating mother, Lottie jettisons her husband and pursues an operatic career, only to encounter the spitting image of her soon-to-be-ex in every man she meets. It’s a kaleidoscopic journey back in time that follows two generations of women struggling against suffocating parental authority to grasp the brass ring of love.
Patty’s Parlour
By Ray Werner
Sunday, May 3, 2026, 2 PM to 4 PM
Directed by Anthony McKay
It’s the last chance for a struggling bakery as its troubled past collides with the dream of Bernie, a young baker with IDD (Intellectual and Developmental Disability). Can his mother Patty wrestle with the impossible and somehow find a path that just might turn mayhem into magic?
The Weight Of Forgiveness
By Leon Ford
Sunday, May 3, 2026, 6 PM to 8 PM
Directed by Mark Clayton Southers
The Weight of Forgiveness is a raw, unflinching two-person drama that puts accountability, forgiveness, and truth on trial. When Leon sits down with the officer who changed his life forever, what unfolds is not reconciliation, it’s a battle over identity, responsibility, and who gets to define what really happened. In a world quick to label heroes and villains, this play asks: What happens when both refuse to stay in their roles?
Pay what you want. Not part of PPTCO’s season subscription.