The Heavy Gait of Night is a brand-new play by SCSC Founder and Artistic Director Jeffrey Chips about grief, passion, and family, filled with humor and love and finding inspiration from those we love the most. The year is 1596. Will “Shaggy” Shakespeare… Read More ›
The Twelve Dates of Christmas by Ginna Hoben is a heartwarming one-woman play offering a hilarious and modern alternative to the old standards of the holiday season. This one-woman holiday comedy, opening December 4th, features Catherine Baird in the role of… Read More ›
By Eva Phillips The complexities and nuances of Shakespeare’s tremendous tragedy Richard III are apparent to even those uninitiated to Shakespeare’s antics. Grandiloquent as it is intricate in plot, Richard III boasts being Shakespeare’s second longest play (after some lesser-known play called Hamlet) and… Read More ›
Steel City Shakespeare Center opened their holiday offering, Charles Dicken’s A Christmas Carol with the first of four presentations, this at the Trinity Lutheran Church on the Northside. I’m going to make the assumption here that everyone reading this post knows… Read More ›
The Steel City Shakespeare Center is devoted to bringing theatre to the underserved and breaking down notions that Shakespeare is only accessible to people of a certain class, income or educational level. Choosing to perform their latest production, William Shakespeare’s… Read More ›
A Letter from the Editor, Here we are again, on the cusp of Summer. This will be Pittsburgh in the Round’s 5th Summer season here in the Steel City so we truly want to thank you, our precious readers, for… Read More ›
When you meet Jeffrey Chips, artistic director for the Steel City Shakespeare Center, you’re immediately struck by his indisputable kindness and genuineness. The mission of the Steel City Shakespeare Center is to use classical theater to engage and inspire audiences…. Read More ›
Everything about The Steel City Shakespeare Center’s (SCSC) production of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol surprised me. This was my first SCSC performance and I have to admit, I kind of want to go back today and watch the show again. For weeks I… Read More ›
For all that’s been said about the appeal of the heroic epic, one of the genre’s least appreciated aspects is that its protagonists are malleable. Joseph Campbell’s infinitely referenced literary analysis, The Hero With A Thousand Faces, is so quotable… Read More ›
Jeffery Chips is trying to be it all: husband, father, theater director, and day-job-worker. He said, referring to the old idiom of burning the candle at both ends, that he had actually located a third end to burn. He started… Read More ›
