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.
The inventive and hilarious homage to silent film comedy became a cultural sensation in 2024. With sold out screenings across the country, the film returns to the Harris Theater for two more shows...but this time on a brand new 35mm print!
Join hosts Sean Collier and the mysterious Dr. Gielgud for a special family friendly edition of the Steel City Horror show, with in-theater surprises and a mystery film on 35mm!
In Francis Ford Coppola’s 1974 masterpiece, lonely wiretapping expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to record a seemingly innocuous conversation in San Francisco’s Union Square between two lovers, which ultimately could put the couple in danger.
A plot that can be explained in a single sentence sets the minimalist action in motion in Jia Zhangke’s masterful new film. The journey is the actual destination in this impressionistic film consisting of footage shot over more than 20 years.
FLOW follows a courageous cat after his home is devastated by a great flood. Teaming up with a capybara, a lemur, a bird, and a dog to navigate a boat in search of dry land, they rely on trust, courage, and wits to survive their newly aquatic planet.
A widowed British businessman takes a job as a manor house butler in France to keep alive the memories of his late French wife. His life takes an unexpected turn as he navigates the eccentric behavior of the lady of the manor and the household staff.
This Oscar®-nominated hand-drawn adventure follows a young wolf hunter who befriends a free-spirited girl from a mysterious tribe that can transform into wolves at night.
A happily married father of two, shaken by a message written in a birthday card for his daughter, abruptly leaves his family for a week-long trek through the Grand Canyon. On his solo hike, memories of an earlier trip with a different woman emerge.
In a post-apocalyptic future where food is scarce, the last descendants of a Black family of farmers who settled in Canada after the American Civil War must protect their homestead from an organized militia hell-bent on taking their land.
HARD TO SWALLOW is a poetic food show chronicling the life of Nigerian chef/writer Tunde Wey, recounting his explosive career and exploring social structures that disenfranchise Black peoples globally. With Tunde Wey and Theo Schear in attendance!
This truly unique dark comedy–the international breakthrough of the filmmaker who’d go on to make movies like The Favourite and Poor Things–heralded the arrival of a major new talent.
Roger Waters, founding member and creative force behind legendary Pink Floyd, brings to the screen his live show, filmed at a concert in Prague. The film encompasses 60 years of iconic songs from his Pink Floyd days with those from his solo career.
From the master of the zombie film comes the darkest day of horror the world has known! Society collapsed, driving people underground, but a small team of scientists, civilians, and trigger-happy soldiers battle for the survival of the human race.
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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.
