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In the Heat of the Night

When: Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m., Sundays, 3 p.m., Mon., Feb. 19, 8 p.m., Fridays, 8 p.m. and Saturdays, 2 & 8 p.m. Continues through March 10 2018

The 1967 film version of John Ball’s novel In the Heat of the Night is a cultural touchstone for many, a story dealing with racial tension in the contemporary South. Starting tonight, playwright Matt Pelfrey’s acclaimed 2010 stage version gets its Pittsburgh premiere. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co. stages the story of a black California cop investigating a brutal murder in small-town Alabama in 1962. Monteze Freeland directs a cast led by Kevin H. Moore as detective Virgil Tibbs. -Bill O'Drsicoll

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