Alan Stanford has been removed from his job as artistic and executive director of PICT Class Theatre, following an account of alleged sexual misconduct reported in Pittsburgh City Paper. In a press release, the PICT board of directors announced that… Read More ›
By Bob Hoover In these times of war, plague, drought, wildfires, and domestic conflict, can we handle the despair of Samuel Beckett? Then again, “Nothing is funnier than unhappiness.” Considering all that’s happening, Alan Stanford‘s choice of Beckett’s Endgame, which… Read More ›
By Sharon Eberson It’s not your typical PICT Classic Theatre offering, The Boys in the Band. Still, as a play that has been heralded as “a true theatrical game-changer,” it certainly fits the mold of a contemporary classic. On Friday,… Read More ›
By Sharon Eberson Pittsburgh Public Theater’s schedule, like so many other plans in our lives, has been thrown a curveball by COVID-19. The solo show How the Hell Did I Get Here?,that was supposed to bring actress Lesley Nicol from London to… Read More ›
A love letter to nature and an adventure in relationships, PICT Classic Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a stunningly bright production celebrating the actors’ power through poetry and the audience’s “imaginary forces.” In WQED’s Fred Rogers Studio–a space steeped in imagination—director Alan… 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 ›
Sleep much? You might sleep for at least one night with your eyes open after The Woman in Black at PICT Classic Theatre. A joyful terror, this legendary dramatized ghost story runs through November 23 in the intimate Fred Rogers… Read More ›
PICT Classic Theater’s third and final production of their 2018-2019 season will be The Heiress, written by Ruth and Augustus Goetz. Adapted from the novel, Washington Square by Henry James, The Heiress tells the story of a wealthy yet insecure… Read More ›
PICT Classic Theater’s second play of their 2018-2019 season is an original by Pittsburgh playwright, Ray Werner. Werner’s Run the Rabbit Path looks at a family facing the death of a loved one, and explores the nostalgia and resentment they… Read More ›
A letter from the Editor, Well, here we are again, my dear readers. Nearly the end of the year. Nearly winter. Nearly time for new beginnings. It’s also nearly our 5th birthday! In our nearly five years we have written… Read More ›