Throughline Theatre to present CLOUD 9
The first act of Cloud Nine revolves around a British family in colonial Africa. Clive, the patriarch, rigidly maintains that his family perfectly embodies Victorian values but reality is more complex than he would like to admit. Act Two takes place in 1979 but features several of the same characters as Act One, thus highlighting the differences (and surprising similarities) of the Victorian and modern eras.
PICT to Channel Edgar Allan Poe with TWO TALES OF TERROR
Though still suppressing any telltale clues to its upcoming season, PICT Classic Theatre is pleased to announce the world-premiere of TWO TALES OF TERROR by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted by PICT's Artistic & Executive Director, Alan Stanford. The production will run May 5 through 20 at the Henry Heymann Theatre, and it will feature two short stories by Poe-The Tell-tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher.
PICT to Channel Edgar Allan Poe with TWO TALES OF TERROR
Though still suppressing any telltale clues to its upcoming season, PICT Classic Theatre is pleased to announce the world-premiere of TWO TALES OF TERROR by Edgar Allan Poe, adapted by PICT's Artistic & Executive Director, Alan Stanford. The production will run May 5 through 20 at the Henry Heymann Theatre, and it will feature two short stories by Poe-The Tell-tale Heart and The Fall of the House of Usher.
PICT's SHARON'S GRAVE, Great Irish Yarn About Love, Legends & the Land, Begins Tonight
July is peak vacation season, and for two hours, audiences can travel with PICT Classic Theatre to the wild southwest coast of Ireland. Sharon's Grave, by Irish audience-favorite John B. Keane, runs tonight, July 16, through August 1, in the Henry Heymann Theatre inside the Stephen Foster Memorial.
PICT Classic Theatre to Present Charles Dickens' GREAT EXPECTATIONS, 12/4-20
On the heels of the most-attended production in PICT's 18-year history, PICT Classic Theatre presents Charles Dickens' Great Expectations from December 4 - 20 at the Stephen Foster Memorial in Oakland. The final production before PICT's 2015 Downtown Series, Great Expectations concludes the year with an adored classic, perfect for the holiday season, which evokes feelings of nostalgia for countless readers worldwide.
PICT's WAITING FOR GODOT Offers Many Welcome Returns to the Stage, Now thru 6/21
When Artistic & Executive Director Alan Stanford was planning the 2014 PICT season, Managing Director Stephanie Riso suggested the addition of the Beckett classic Waiting for Godot. She knew Alan had a special relationship with this particular work of Beckett, having portrayed Pozzo for the Gate Theatre Dublin's touring production for more than twenty years.
PICT's WAITING FOR GODOT to Offer Many Welcome Returns to the Stage, 6/4-21
When Artistic & Executive Director Alan Stanford was planning the 2014 PICT season, Managing Director Stephanie Riso suggested the addition of the Beckett classic Waiting for Godot. She knew Alan had a special relationship with this particular work of Beckett, having portrayed Pozzo for the Gate Theatre Dublin's touring production for more than twenty years.
PICT Theatre Opens Season with BLITHE SPIRIT Tonight
PICT Theatre's Artistic and Executive Director Alan Stanford has selected a bold assortment of classic plays for PICT's 18th season, Something Wicked This Way Comes. Each play contains its own version of wickedness, with the Noel Coward classic Blithe Spirit opening the season tonight, May 3rd (May 1 and 2 previews.)
Photo Flash: Inside PICT Theatre's Inaugural PICT UNCOMMON PLEAS
On Thursday, March 27, PICT Theatre and the Arts and Law Committee of the Allegheny County Bar hosted more than 150 guests at the Duquesne Club for the inaugural PICT UnCommon Pleas, a legal theatrical event featuring attorney Dennis Unkovic of Meyer, Unkovic and Scott LLP, and Pittsburgh Tech Council president Audrey Russo as Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. Federal and state judges Maurice B. Cohill Jr., Nora Barry Fischer, Jeffrey A. Manning, Judith Ference Olson, Christine A. Ward, and Dwayne R. Woodruff presided as advocates pleaded their cases for or against the Macbeths. Scroll down to see some photos from the event!
PICT Theatre to Open Season with BLITHE SPIRIT, 5/3
PICT Theatre's Artistic and Executive Director Alan Stanford has selected a bold assortment of classic plays for PICT's 18th season, Something Wicked This Way Comes. Each play contains its own version of wickedness, with the Noel Coward classic Blithe Spirit opening the season May 3rd (May 1 and 2 previews.)
BLITHE SPIRIT, WAITING FOR GODOT & More Set for PICT Theatre's 2014 Season
PICT Theatre (Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre) packs its eighteenth year of classic favorites and pure Irish genius, a return to its original mission under the leadership of Producing Artistic Director Alan Stanford. The selection of plays all fit the theme, "Something Wicked This Way Comes," a line taken from the fifth show of the season.
PICT Theatre Stages A SKULL IN CONNEMARA, Now thru 9/28
PICT Theatre's fifth production of the season is the Pittsburgh premiere of Martin McDonagh's hilarious whodunit A Skull in Connemara, one of a the Leenane trilogy of plays written by the contemporary Irish playwright. McDonagh's dark humor features the colloquial idioms of the west of Ireland, its rugged landscape, and its even more rugged people. McDonagh wrote one of PICT's most popular shows, The Lieutenant of Inishmore. His short film Six Shooter won an Academy Award in 2006, and he was nominated for an Oscar for best original screenplay for In Bruges, a feature-length film in which two hitmen hide in the Flemish city of Bruges after a problematic job.
Alan Stanford Named New Producing Artistic Director of PICT Theatre
Following an extensive search process, PICT Theatre's board of directors has appointed Alan Stanford as the company's producing artistic director. Stanford has been serving as the interim producing artistic director since February. Board president Eugene O'Sullivan said, "We were fortunate to find someone of Alan's caliber to lead this organization at a most critical time. His experience as well as his performance in the intervening months proved he was the best of all of the candidates for the job."
PICT Theatre Presents LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN, Now thru 7/27
Renowned Oscar Wilde expert Alan Stanford, PICT's interim Producing Artistic Director, will direct his adaptation of the great Irish playwright's comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. Wilde's play, first produced in 1892 in London, satirizes the morality of Victorian society. Stanford has moved the setting forward in time to 1947; in post-World-War II London, Wilde's language and ridicule of high-society still resonate. Oscar Wilde was not so much a writer of polite English comedy, but rather a biting Irish satirist who lampooned the social absurdities and prejudices of the English upper classes, prejudices that lasted well into the Twentieth Century. This production, which runs tonight, July 11 through July 27, is PICT's third show of the season, and features a cast of 17 actors.
PICT Announces New Interim Artistic Director Alan Stanford
Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre (PICT) announces the appointment of Alan Stanford as Interim Artistic Director for the company, effective immediately. Mr. Stanford replaces Andrew Paul who, along with Stephanie Riso, founded the company in 1997.
Pitt Rep Stages ZANNA, DON'T: A MUSICAL FAIRY TALE, Now thru 3/3
Pitt Rep weaves a musical fairy tale with Zanna, Don't! by Tim Acito and Alexander Dinelaris, directed by Robert C.T. Steele, with musical direction by Harry Jamison and vocal direction by Stacy Cabaj at the Henry Heymann Theatre, Stephen Foster Memorial, 4200 Fifth Ave, from tonight, February 14 to March 3, 2013.