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 ›
The 20th season of Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks – which coincides with The Bard’s 460th birthday – gets under way with the 11th annual Week of Will and includes an indoor reading of the new one-act play This Could… 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 ›
During September, Cleopatra and Antony to play in Pittsburgh’s parks. (Note: This post has been updated to reflect casting changes and cast photos.) PSiP’s 19th season opens with the 10th Annual Week of Will on April 23, featuring staged readings… Read More ›
During September, Cleopatra and Antony to play in Pittsburgh’s parks. PSiP’s 19th season opens with the 10th Annual Week of Will on April 23, featuring staged readings of two comedies, Twelfth Night and the premiere of Shakespeare: First Drafts by Charles David “Stoney”… Read More ›
Reviewed by MAC Hoover We were seated on outdoor chairs amidst boxes of cider with bare bulbs of fluorescent lights shining overhead. An eyewash station comprised stage right. There were soft and pleasing guitar riffs, and music drifted like the… Read More ›
Three actors conjure all 37 plays in Will’s canon in just 97 minutes through the hilarious rapid-fire The Complete Works of Shakespeare Abridged, March 30 through April 9 at Threadbare Cider House & Meadery. The six performances are set in… Read More ›
Once more, Shammen McCune is immersed in an iconic Shakespearean role. In 2017, McCune portrayed Lady Capulet in PICT Classic Theater’s Romeo and Juliet. In 2019, she inhabited Caliban in The Tempest at Pittsburgh Public Theater and the assassin Brutus in Julius Caesar for Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks…. Read More ›
