Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks, the city’s professional outdoor Shakespeare company founded by Artistic Director Jennifer Tober, celebrates 20 years of free Shakespeare in Pittsburgh city parks and spaces. Opening on August 31st and running each September weekend, Twelfth Night tells the story… Read More ›
Reviewed by Dr. TIFFANY RAYMOND, PhD Feminist swag is often emblazoned with reminders that the future is female. Director Jennifer Tober doesn’t limit that to the future. The past and present are female, too, thanks to Tober’s all-female production of Shakespeare’s Antony… Read More ›
Performances for PSiP’s all-female Cleopatra & Antony begin this Saturday, September 2nd at 2 p.m. at Frick Park and continue through October 4th in various city parks with free admission. Politics meets passion in the timeless story of Cleopatra & Antony. Founding Artistic… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Shakespeare In The Parks Continues Its 19th Season with an All-Female Cleopatra & Antony, September 2-October 1, 2023 Politics meets passion in the timeless story of Cleopatra and Anthony, Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks’ 19th season outdoor production, during five… Read More ›
Review: Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream By MAC Hoover “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:There sleeps Titania sometime… Read More ›
By Eva Phillips Harper York, not unlike two infamously fabled star cross’d lovers, had a feverish, impassioned vision that she was driven to bring to life. Thankfully, unlike those two lovers, however, York isn’t a fourteen-year-old in the throes of… Read More ›
This November, Pittsburgh Classic Players will tackle William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet as the final show of their season of “Bad Romance.” This show will prove to be Pittsburgh Classic Players most ambitious production to date, with the hope of… Read More ›
By Eva Phillips The balance of power is erratic and volatile. Can those who thirst for power and reign over others ever do so without corruption, or without the megrims of self-interest overtaking the objectiveness of their rule? And when… Read More ›
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears!” Iconic. Evocative. Declarative. Historic. But even the canon, once considered untouchable, needs a little revamping and re-imagining. Who was obfuscated, overlooked or silenced in the classics that founded our dramaturgical literacies? What… Read More ›
By Tyler Prah When presented with an unconventional space, innovation is dire to tailor a show to the environment. Fortunately, Pittsburgh Classic Players handles this task with ease, converting a barren community center room into a homely depiction of a… Read More ›
