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 ›
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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 ›
Two Tales of Terror
The Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater (PICT) is currently showing “Two Tales of Terror,” an excellently executed adaptation of the famous Edgar Allen Poe stories, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher. Adapted for the stage… Read More ›
PICT Conjures Poe’s Terror for Final Bows at Pitt before next Season at Union Project
Terror. Alan Stanford, artistic and executive director of PICT Classic Theatre, admits he loves the genre and that he read Edgar Allan Poe under the covers as a child. Didn’t we all? But nothing may seem more terrifying than having… Read More ›
Losing Our Heads Over Shakespeare, Part 2: Pittsburgh Shakespeareans Admit Lifelong Attraction
When we left Part 1 of this mini-series on why Pittsburgh artists lose their heads over Shakespeare’s works, I took the liberty of supposing that his wife Anne might have held the clue to the reportedly missing skull from the… Read More ›