City Theatre is the home of “America’s Short Play Festival” – the signature Summer Shorts Festival and a host of innovative outreach programs including the Short Cuts Tour, Shorts for Kids Festival, KidShorts mentoring program and Festival Series of play readings. With a growing reputation for artistic excellence, the company has a strong following with thousands who celebrate this popular festival as the official kick-off of the summer season and “the COOL thing to do on a HOT summer night”.

A not-for-profit theatre professional company founded in 1996, City Theatre brings over 100 of the region and nation’s finest artists together annually. The season highlight - Summer Shorts - is one of the few festivals nationally devoted to World or Florida Premieres of “shorts”, original comedies and dramas running 3 - 20 minutes each. Playing to packed houses and rave reviews annually, Summer Shorts performs at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts and Broward Center for the Performing Arts. The company also has an artistic alliance with one of the nation’s most prestigious regional theatres, the Actors Theatre of Louisville. As co-sponsors of the National Ten-Minute Play Contest, City Theatre and ATL receive over 1,200 annual submissions for consideration for the Summer Shorts and Humana Festivals, respectively.

With a captive audience, a unique marketing niche and a host of institutional support, City Theatre’s goal is to be among the nation’s premier forums for developing new work, and to create fresh and imaginative performances that will enlighten, inspire and entertain.