True West at Riverfront Theater Company

Following a full run of sold-out productions in 2022, Riverfront Theater Company will raise the curtain on its 2023 season with Sam Shepard's True West at Allegheny RiverTrail Park (285 River Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15215) on March 16–18 and 23–25, 2023.

True West is an American classic that explores alternatives that might spring from the demented terrain of the California landscape. Sons of a desert-dwelling alcoholic and a suburban wanderer clash over a film script. Austin, the achiever, is working on a script he has sold to producer Saul Kimmer when Lee, a demented petty thief, drops in. He pitches his own idea for a movie to Kimmer, who then wants Austin to junk his bleak, modern love story and write Lee’s trashy Western tale.