Projects

RealTime creates narrative art in conversation with a broad range of collaborators, from theater artists to scientists to rock bands to social workers to our neighbors down the street.

Here are some things we’ve done:

200 audience members wearing white convened at Carrie Furnace to play “the ghosts of Carrie Furnace.”

Celebrate the personality, lived experiences and personal history of ordinary extraordinary Pittsburghers.

A transcontinental “engine of connection” involving over 60 pen pals, makers, artists, and volunteers in Beirut and Pittsburgh.

A whole season of plays-by-mail with theatre companies and artists across the globe.

SHARON, dramatizes stories from interviews of local childcare workers during the time of COVID

Live cultural/ culinary performances designed to challenge Americans’ perceptions about Afghanistan

Real Time Presents…

A new genre-defying series of virtual shows developed in direct response to feedback from our audiences about what they wanted and needed

Songs for Female Serial Killers is a true-crime cabaret concert that explores the moments and motives of female serial killers throughout history.

An online toy-theater rendition of Ibsen’s masterpiece A Doll House. See the entire production on our Facebook page (dialogue is in the captions).

A multi-community collaboration with Ukrainians here and abroad, where audiences will be able to impact the piece as it develops in real time.

THE SAINTS TOUR is a site-specific play built intentionally for and with the neighborhood it occupies.

Sport (In Development)

In honor of humanity’s (& particularly Pittsburgh’s) passion for sports.

Photo Credits

Dominique Murray; Pixelab; Heather Mull; Matt Metrovich; Handerson Gomez