PICT Classic Theatre opened their 22nd season with the theatrical adaptation of Charles Dickens classic serialized novel The Old Curiosity Shop. PICT Artistic and Executive Director Alan Stanford adapted the novel for the stage at the Gate Theatre in Dublin… Read More ›
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Fall Preview: 3rd Edition
A letter from the Editor, Hello friends and welcome to our third annual Fall Preview! If you’ve been sticking with us for a while, you know the drill! If you’re new to the PITR game, welcome! We’re glad you’re here…. Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
The Lion in Winter
It’s well into the holiday season and there’s a chance you’ve either had or will have a tense family dinner. No matter your family situation, you’re probably not going have as tense a Christmas as King Henry II and his… Read More ›
The Merchant of Venice
Sometimes romantic, occasionally funny, and always unsettling, Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice makes audiences squirm. The play mirrors not only the historic anti-Semitism of the late 1500s but an ongoing reality. PICT deserves kudos for staging such a thoughtful and… 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 ›