With more than 50 restaurants in walking distance to theaters, the Cultural District offers a wide variety of dining options to satisfy your personal tastes and budget. Enjoying a relaxing meal before a show or capping off the evening with cocktails and dessert add to a pleasurable experience in the Cultural District.
A Pittsburgh Cultural District-wide gift card can be used to purchase tickets for Pittsburgh Cultural Trust events as well as any event taking place in the Cultural District. With so many exciting shows, concerts, and exhibitions, there is truly something for everyone!
The Cultural District is accessible by public transportation, including Port Authority buses, "T" light-rail service and Pittsburgh's famous inclines. Driving to the show? There is also ample parking in and around the District -- for real-time garage parking information, try ParkPGH.
In a performance marked by darkly comic pathos, first-time actor Ubeimar Rios stars in A POET, a raw and riotous farce about how good deeds are often met with the universe’s idea of cruel and unusually poetic punishment.
With its gorgeous widescreen compositions and sophisticated look at American male obsession, this stripped-down narrative from director Monte Hellman is one of the artistic high points of 1970s cinema, and possibly the greatest road movie ever made.
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments.
Scorsese’s passion project, starring Willem Dafoe in one of his greatest performances as Jesus Christ, ranks among the most controversial American films released during Reagan’s second term.
Nobody loves or understands movie monsters more than Guillermo del Toro, and in his debut film he gave us his skin-crawling take on the most enduring monster of them all: the vampire.
Set in 1990s New York, Nadja is a moody, postmodern vampire tale where grief, identity, and immortality collide. Dreamlike black-and-white visuals especially impress in this gorgeous 4K restoration.
Christian Petzold’s (Transit) haunting, beautifully crafted new film stars Paula Beer as a pianist from Berlin who’s taken in by a mysterious woman in an isolated country house after surviving a violent car crash
In this newly restored cult favorite by Indian legend Satyajit Ray, four young male urbanites decamp to the countryside for some rest and relaxation, only to have their pride and prejudices challenged by three women. New 4K Restoration
Pittsburgh Sound + Image presents avant-garde filmmaker and master preservationist Bill Brand, in-person for one night only, who will share 50 years of his optically-printed experimental films, presented digitally and from 16mm preservation prints.
An insanely cool mix of noirish grit and slam-bang action, this caper film from director Walter Hill (48 Hrs, The Warriors) is required viewing for car-chase fanatics and devotees of ’70s cinema.
This singular Italian genre-mashup from 1949 fuses the class-based politics—and the on-location authenticity—of neorealism with smoldering romance and pulp crime melodrama. New 4K Resoration!
Offering rare cinematic glimpses of Chicago in the 1940s, this noir-adjacent, documentary-style crime drama stars Jimmy Stewart as a reporter who campaigns to free a wrongly imprisoned man accused of murdering a cop 11 years earlier.
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About the Harris Theater
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Harris Theater is one of the most active arts facilities in the region showing art films nearly every day of the year.
Formerly known as the Art Cinema, the Harris Theater represents a milestone in the redevelopment of Liberty Avenue. The Art Cinema was the first moving picture house in Pittsburgh to commercially show art movies until competition from other city theaters led to its conversion to an adult movie house in the 1960s. As part of its mission to transform the Cultural District, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust purchased and restored the facility leading to further conversions of run-down properties along the Liberty Avenue corridor. With a total of 194 seats, including a fully restored balcony, the Harris Theater officially opened to the public for movies and live performances on November 9, 1995. The theater is one of the few that has retained 35mm film projectors that are utilized regularly.
The Harris was named through a gift from the Buhl Foundation after John P. Harris, co-founder of the Nickelodeon—the first theater solely dedicated to the showing of motion pictures—and a Pennsylvania State Senator. The Harris Theater features contemporary, foreign, and classic films.
Films For All
The Harris Theater has installed the necessary equipment to provide closed movie captioning and audio description to patrons for digital films that offer these features. Films with captioning and audio description available will be noted when available.
Support the Harris Theater and Become a Member!
Help keep the projectors running at the Harris Theater by making a membership gift to support the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. We are excited to announce new membership benefits at the Harris Theater that you can enjoy all year long!
Make a gift of $100 or more to receive $1 off each movie ticket at the Harris Theater (available online and at the door*), and other great benefits!
Make a gift of $250 or more to receive one free popcorn at every visit*, and other great benefits!
*Must show membership card to receive these discounts on-site
Additional membership benefits available at other giving levels. Support the Harris Today!
Take a deep dive into the creation of the 2022 Januscary Film Festival!
Concessions
Concessions are available for all screenings and the Harris Theater is now BYOB. Guests who bring alcoholic beverages must be 21 years or older and provide valid photo ID upon request, a $5 charge will be issued per guest.
Directions
The address is 809 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15222. Call the Harris directly at 412-930-8053.
