Pittsburgh Public Theater

Pittsburgh Public Theater, located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a professional theater company. Led by Producing Artistic Director Ted Pappas and a board of trustees, Pittsburgh Public annually produces a six-play subscription series that mixes classics, works from Broadway, and musicals. Pittsburgh Public Theater has been in continuous operation since 1975, first on Pittsburgh's North Side and since 1999 in the O'Reilly Theater, in the heart of Downtown's Cultural District.

1974: Joan Apt and Margaret Rieck start Pittsburgh Public Theater with Ben Shaktman as General Director. The City of Pittsburgh offers Allegheny Theater to The Public rent free. Grants from 37 corporations, foundations and the state arts council, along with 934 individuals, fund the theater's $370,000 budget. With a grant from the William Randolph Hearst Foundation and a design by Peter Wexler, a flexible stage and audience space with movable scaffold seating for 350 is created.

September 1975: First Public Theater production, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, stars Carol Teitel and is directed by Ben Shaktman, at the Allegheny Theater on the North Side.

October 1975: Tom Atkins makes his first appearance as Randle P. McMurphy in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.

November 1975: Leonard Nimoy begins performances in William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night as Malvolio.

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