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Content Note
This production contains strong language, discussions of alcohol, drug use, and suicide. It is recommended for ages 16+.
Sensory Warning
This production will include flashing projections and the use of theatrical haze.
Detailed Plot Summary (Spoilers)
o In a tour de force performance, playwright and actress Tami Dixon, weaves an intricate portrait of the unique neighborhood in which City Theatre resides. This new iteration of the hit show from over a decade ago was built through interviews and conversations with residents of the south side. The stories in the script touch on everything from memories of the South Side’s past to wrestling with the neighborhood's present identity. The stories are incredibly funny and also deeply poignant.
Written by Tami Dixon
Directed by Matt M. Morrow
January 13 to February 18, 2024
A World Premiere commissioned by City Theatre!
In 2012, Tami Dixon sat on the sidewalks of the South Side of Pittsburgh asking residents to tell her stories. The resulting one woman play delighted audiences and was described as “dazzling” and “a big, fat evening of bliss” (City Paper). Ten years later, Dixon returns to the streets of the South Side to revisit her vivid set of tales and explore how the community where City Theatre resides has changed.
This modal contains biographic information about Tami Dixon
Tami Dixon
Playwright & Performer
TAMI DIXON is so excited to be back at City Theatre and part of this incredible company for POTUS. Ms. Dixon most recently appeared in her critically acclaimed one woman show, South Side Stories Revisited at City Theatre. Favorite roles also include, Heidi in What the Constitution Means to Me at City Theatre, Miss Julie in Miss Julie, Clarissa and John with Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire with barebones productions. In New York she appeared on Broadway in The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant at The Henry Miller Theatre, and off-Broadway in When We Dead Awaken and The Master Builder at The Century Center, and unbecoming at 45th Street Theater. Regionally she originated the role of Pace Creagan in Naomi Wallace’s The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek atThe Humana Festival, and starred in Huckleberry Finn at George Street Playhouse. As the Co-Artistic Director of Bricolage Production Company since 2005, Ms. Dixon has devised and co-directed the nationally acclaimed immersive experiences The Forest of Everywhere, OjO: The Next Generation of Travel, and STRATA. She’s been the lead writer for 12 seasons for Bricolage’s Midnight Radio program, and starred in their productions of Dutchman, Key to the Field, and Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom. Ms. Dixon received her BFA in Acting from Carnegie Mellon University. Ms. Dixon is the recipient of a TCG/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship, the Carol R. Brown Emerging Artist Award from The Heinz Endowments and The Pittsburgh Foundation, the Tribute to Women Leadership Award for Creative Arts from the YWCA, City Theatre’s Frankel Award, and was named Performer of the Year by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
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Run Time:
Approximately 80 minutes; there is no intermission
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