In 2025 we will be performing 3 Plays and a musical. Scroll down to see all shows and ticket links. 

The Iron Horse Theatre Company will begin its season with a documentary and one-act play called, The Epitome of Grace. The Epitome of Grace is based on a book that chronicles the life and career of Chief Rocco. This one-woman play and documentary film highlights the life and career of Chief Therese Rocco, who during her 40-year career is credited with finding 45,000 missing children and persons. The play begins shortly before Chief Rocco retires from the Pittsburgh Police Department. Epitome of Grace reflects on Therese Rocco’s life, cases, struggles, and accomplishments.  The play encapsulates the challenges Therese faced from the 1940s through the 1990s and how she broke through that so-called “glass ceiling”. This inspirational story is a must-see show that the Iron Horse Theatre Company is proud to produce in 2025.

The show dates are as follows: June 13, 14, 20, 21, 22, 27, and 28.

All show times start at 7:30 except the Sunday matinee on June 22. The Sunday Matinee start show time is 2:00 PM.

Tickets: $20.00  /  $18.00 seniors (64+)  

In August, Bruce Zewe's play, Coach and Mrs. Jagoff premiers at the Iron Horse Community Theatre. Coach and Mrs. Jagoff is a play about the struggles of Jake Sebastian, a successful high-school football coach in Fisk, a declining industrial town in western Pennsylvania. The plot revolves around Jake's steadfast marriage to his wife Lynn, and the Fisk townspeople's increasingly hostile attitude toward them both. The play deals with the corrosive effects of income inequality on a community. Jake and Lynn Sebastian are affluent and perceived as haves who don't fit in culturally in a town of have-nots. Despite Jake’s success as a coach, will the town eventually embrace him and his wife, or will his personal and professional troubles ultimately lead to Jake’s demise? Don’t miss this incredibly relevant play in August 2025.  

The show dates are as follows: August 8, 9, 15, 16, 17, 22,  and 23.

All show times start at 7:30 except the Sunday matinee on August 17. The Sunday Matinee show start time is 2:00 PM. 

Tickets: $20.00  /  $18.00 seniors (64+) 

In October we will be premiering Dave Borland's Angel of Mercy. Angel of Mercy is a story of Fannie Sellins, one of the best union organizers in the early 20th century. After her husband’s death, Fannie worked in a garment factory to support her four children. She helped to organize the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, where she became a negotiator for 400 women locked out of the garment factory. Afterward, she worked for the mine workers union. She distributed clothing and food to starving women and babies, assisted poverty-stricken mothers, and tended to the sick and dying. Despite all the good she was doing in her community; she was arrested for defying an anti-union injunction. After her release, Sellins joined the staff of the UMWA in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was assigned to the Allegheny River Valley district to direct picketing by striking miners at Allegheny Coal and Coke Company. When she witnessed a posse of the Coal and Iron Police beating a picketing miner, she intervened to protect him and the miner’s children that were on the scene. Don’t miss this compelling and true story about a local superwoman.

The show dates are as follows: October 10, 11, 17, 18, 19, 24, and 25.

All show times start at 7:30 except the Sunday matinee on October 19. The Sunday Matinee show start time is 2:00 PM. 

Tickets: $20.00  /  $18.00 seniors (64+) 

In December we finish our season with, Rent. Rent is an award-winning rock musical that tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists struggling to survive and create a life in Lower Manhattan's East Village, in the thriving days of the bohemian culture of Alphabet City, under the shadow of HIV/AIDS. Rent is a musical that focuses on four friends – Roger, Mark, Collins, Angel – as well as their significant others while they balance their art with their income and ability to pay rent. While the play addresses the HIV/AIDS crisis head on, the other themes of Rent also directly address homelessness, poverty, and gentrification. On Broadway, Rent gained critical acclaim and won several awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the Tony Award for Best Musical.

The show dates are as follows: December 5, 6, 12, 13, 14, 19, and 20.

All show times start at 7:30 except the Sunday matinee Decembeer 14. The Sunday Matinee show start time is 2:00 PM.

Tickets: $20.00  /  $18.00 seniors (64+)  

Save money!  Buy a 4 admissions season pass!

The Season Pass is good for 4 admissions to any show. Attend all 4 plays! 

* Season passes can be used for any combination of events. Regular price would be $80.00

Season Pass Price: Only $70.00

For questions please call (724) 263-0075.