This year's MOMENTUM festival at City Theatre, taking place this weekend
(Thursday through Sunday), includes a number of CMU students and alumni,
including Stuart Carden, Chase Newell, Adam Berry, Kyle Beltran, and Tyree
Robinson. MOMENTUM is four days packed with new plays, lively discussions, a
free writing workshop, and socializing with artistic colleagues from around
the country. It's always a great and fun weekend.

City Theatre and BNY Mellon present

MOMENTUM 08

Hear a hot musical plus three new play readings and get the inside scoop
from a pack of theatre pros during City Theatre's sixth annual festival.

Thursday, June 12

6:30 pm    Kickoff Reception    

7:30 pm    Reading of Long Story Short by Brendan Milburn & Valerie
Vigoda

Friday, June 13

6:30 pm    Playwrights Panel - The momentum08 writers expose the inside
scoop on navigating a career in theatre, musical, TV, and film writing.

8:00 pm    Reading of Speak American by Eric Simonson

Saturday, June 14

2:00 pm    Reading of Him by Daisy Foote

4:30 pm    New Play Panel: State of the Art - Tracy Brigden and renowned
dramaturgs, producers, and agents reveal what's new and most exciting in
theatres across the nation.

8:00 pm    Reading of Long Story Short by Brendan Milburn & Valerie
Vigoda

Sunday, June 15

2:00 pm    Reading of When January Feels Like Summer by Cori Thomas

5:00 pm    Writing Workshop: Musical 101 - A workshop on musical theatre
writing by the composer and lyricist team of Brendan Milburn & Valerie
Vigoda. No experience necessary.

7:00 pm    Reading of Speak American by Eric Simonson

Ticket Information

Each Event: $5

All-Event Pass: $10 (Free for City Theatre Subscribers)

All events located at City Theatre

For Tickets call 412-431-CITY (2489)

Also playing at City Theatre during the Momentum weekend:



Bust by Lauren Weedman

Thursday-Friday at 8:00pm, Saturday at 5:30 & 9:00pm, Sunday at 2:00pm



Tickets range from $20 to $46. For more information and to purchase tickets
call 412.431.CITY

momentum08 is supported by BNY Mellon and City Theatre's New Play Circle

About the Plays

Long Story Short
by Brendan Milburn & Valerie Vigoda
directed by Tracy Brigden
Based on the play An Infinite Ache by David Schulner

A hip contemporary score is the soundtrack to a couple's musical romance
from an inauspicious first date through the unforeseeable ups and downs of a
lifelong relationship.

See the reading now and the fully staged world premiere production on City
Theatre's Mainstage in October 2008.

Speak American
written and directed by Eric Simonson

In 1904 Pittsburgh, immigrant steelworkers struggle to learn the language
and ways of a new home and country, while their young English teacher learns
a lesson of her own in the dehumanizing tactics of Big Steel.

See the reading now and the fully staged world premiere production on City
Theatre's Mainstage in May 2009.

Him
by Daisy Foote
directed by Stuart Carden

Tensions mount in the modern conflict of nature vs human nature when three
siblings inherit their distant father's sanctuary, his own secret wilderness
reserve.

When January Feels Like Summer
by Cori Thomas
directed by Billy Porter

Global warming heats up the new year for two homeboys, a garbage man, an
Indian shopkeeper and her transgendered brother surprised by unexpected love
connections.