City Theatre is thrilled to announce an in-process reading of Neighborly: a play on two stoops by Chisa Hutchinson. The play was developed through the theatre’s Kemp Powers Commission Fund for Black Playwrights.
Friday, May 15th - 7pm
Tickets are free, but registration is required.
In this untraditional buddy comedy, a teenage Harlem transplant and a middle-aged gruff Yinzer form an unlikely friendship in present-day Pittsburgh’s Mexican War Streets; but when the community that brings them together threatens to tear them apart, these two next door neighbors must confront generations of divisiveness in the city they call home.
The play was developed through a residency for Hutchinson over the summer of 2024 that included engaging with numerous partners and community members in Pittsburgh. “So after a sweet, days-long whirlwind tour of town which included archival research and museums and meetings with leaders and artists and a pilgrimage to August Wilson's house and visits to various other historic sites, it was literally just seeing some random bearded guy take out his trash on a drive that sparked the idea for this play,” said Playwright Chisa Hutchinson. “Pittsburgh is legit one of the most unassuming and least pretentious places I've been in, and I hope I did it justice in this play.”