I love going to the theatre on opening night when there’s a sell-out crowd and people are really engaging with the show. That’s why we all do live theatre, right? For the reaction and the vibrations the audience puts out…. Read More ›
PICT Classic Theatre
In the Company of Oscar Wilde
The thing we seem to forget about legendary creative radicals like Oscar Wilde is that they were, in a word, radicals. Oscar Wilde may have been a student of literary history, but his work was prescient. To Wilde, society was… Read More ›
Romeo and Juliet
In the close quarters of Little Italy, old New York is an appropriate volatile and steamy backdrop for the feuding families and young love in PICT Classic Theater’s new production of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, playing through Nov. 4 at… Read More ›
PICT Teaches Romeo and Juliet Lessons in the Neighborhood
When a door opens to create new productions in a historic spaces, creative opportunities are revealed. Now, PICT Classic Theatere brings classic stories to two of Pittsburgh’s most storied settings–the Fred Rogers Studio of WQED-TV in Oakland and The Frick Art… Read More ›
Fall Preview 2017
A Letter from the Editor, Our dear readers, we’ve made it through another summer season! After 40 reviews and 14 features this summer, we’re ready to dig out our sweaters, put on the kettle and continue to keep you up to… Read More ›
Sive
The cut-away of an Irish cottage that serves as a set for PICT’s production of John B. Keane’s Sive (pronounced sigh-ve), looks a quaint place, if sparse and threadbare, but it will house a destructive tableau of hungry, grasping poverty. … Read More ›
Oedipus Rex
Alan Stanford’s new adaption of the classic Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex is a modern day masterpiece. Sometimes you just know within the first few minutes that this is really going to be good. That first inclination comes not from the… Read More ›
Winter Preview 2016
A letter from the Editor To our beloved readers, The countdown has begun; there are just 21 days left until the first day of Winter and we have put together a preview sure to prepare you for a holiday season… Read More ›
Shirley Valentine
Karen Baum infuses the title character of Shirley Valentine with the spunkiness we’ve come to expect from this versatile Pittsburgh-based actor in PICT Classic Theatre’s season opener, running since Labor Day weekend at the Union Project. What better time to… Read More ›
A New Day for PICT Classic Theatre at the Union Project
It’s a new day and a new venue for PICT Classic Theatre. “If you want immediacy, you have to change,” says Artistic and Executive Director Alan Stanford. Now the 19-year-old company moves from the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland to… Read More ›