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Off the Wall Productions is a theater production company located in
Carnegie, Pennsylvania Carnegie () is a Borough (Pennsylvania), borough in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States, and is part of the Greater Pittsburgh Region, Pittsburgh metropolitan area. The population was 7,972 in the United St ...
, USA. A non-profit 501 C3 and Carnegie Stage’s Resident Professional Theater Company, working under contract with
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, producing a minimum of four plays during their season from October to May. Recent focus has been the production of new plays, written by women playwrights.


Mission

The theatre's mission is to create a more conscious and compassionate community, while providing a living wage for all artists, and to encourage and support the admiration of all arts and artists by providing a home in which live theater, dance, music, and comedy can be presented, while nurturing, challenging, inspiring and empowering women theater artists from the area and beyond to collaborate as playwrights, directors, technicians, and actors, explore new ideas, and develop new works."


History

Established in 2007 in
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under artistic directo
Virginia Wall Gruenert
and managing director Hans H Gruenert, the theatre started out producing established plays and musicals as well as Virginia Wall Gruenert's original plays ''Shaken & Stirred'', and ''Without Ruth''. Off the Wall's productions have consistently received positive reviews from local critics, having had its actors and designers recognized in the yearly "Best of" articles in '' Observer-Reporter'' and ''Pittsburgh-Outonline'' as well as having had praise from ''
Pittsburgh City Paper The ''Pittsburgh City Paper'' is Pittsburgh's leading alternative weekly newspaper which focuses on local news, opinion, and arts and entertainment. It bought out ''In Pittsburgh Weekly'' in 2001. As of April 2015, ''City Paper'' is the 14th l ...
'' and ''
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''. In 2012, the theatre company moved to a new location in Carnegie that also serves as a multicultural center for use by other performance groups, including the
Pittsburgh New Works Festival Pittsburgh New Works Festival is an annual festival where participating Pittsburgh-area theatre companies each produce an original one-act play. Established in 1990 by Donna Rae, the Festival features four weeks of productions of new plays as well ...
.


See also

Theatre in Pittsburgh Theater in Pittsburgh has existed professionally since the early 1800s and has continued to expand, having emerged as an important cultural force in the city over the past several decades. History The heritage of theater in Pittsburgh stretches ...


References


External links


Off The Wall Productions official website

Virginia Wall Gruenert official website

Carnegie Stage official website
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