Alan Stanford News

Mercury Theatre has announced the full cast for their pantomime this Christmas, Beauty and the Beast, written by Andrew Pollard and directed by Olivier Award-winning Donnacadh O'Briain.

This is the last chance to vote for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Pittsburgh Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

Time is running out to vote for for the 2021 BroadwayWorld Pittsburgh Awards! The 2021 Regional Awards honor productions which had their first performance between October 1, 2020 through September 30, 2021.

On Saturday, October 30, PICT Classic Theatre will present their first live, in-person performance following the COVID-19 shutdown: William Shakespeare's As You Like It. PICT's first show of its 25th Anniversary Season returns to the company to their home in the Fred Rogers Studio at WQED October 30- November 20, 2021.

Ms. McCune is a mainstay of Pittsburgh theater, having performed recently for Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Quantum, PICT, Bricolage Production Company, The REP and Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks. Regionally, Ms. McCune has worked with Barter Theater, Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati, First-Stage Milwaukee, Phoenix Theater, Stage One, New Harmony Theater, American Players Theater, Native Voices at the Autry, Academy for New Musical Theater, Theater Neo, and the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.

Join PICT Classic Theatre in the recording booth for a behind-the-scenes look at their latest radio drama, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

From the annual Bard's Birthday salute to our Shakespeare-themed Happy Hour, Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks is ZOOMING in on a whole lot of Will for the 456th celebration!

Though theatre seasons around the country were cut short, we wanted to celebrate the theatre that our critics did get to see before things shut down. We asked them for their favorite show they saw this season. Check out their replies below!

This may be Shakespeare's dumbest play, but Alan Stanford's production is still smarter than just about anything else you'll see this year.

On Thursday, February 13th, PICT Classic Theatre will present the second production of its 2019-2020 Season: A Midsummer Night's Dream, at WQED's Fred Rogers Studio in Oakland.

Martin Giles and James FitzGerald star in PICT Classic Theatre's first production of the 2019-2020 season: The Woman in Black. The production will perform at WQED's Fred Rogers Studio in Oakland November 7-23, 2019.

PICT Classic Theatre's 2019-2020 season will consist of 3 productions beginning in November: a ghost story play written by Stephen Mallatratt, an adaptation of a Shakespeare classic, and an Irish play by Hugh Leonard. All three will be presented at WQED's Fred Rogers Studio in Oakland.

On Thursday, April 4th PICT Classic Theatre will present Pittsburgh's first professional production of The Heiress by Ruth and Augustus Goetz, at WQED's Fred Rogers Studio in Oakland.

On Thursday, January 31st PICT Classic Theatre will present the world premiere of the play Run the Rabbit Path by Pittsburgh-based playwright, Ray Werner at WQED's Fred Rogers Studio in Oakland.

Martin Giles, Karen Baum, Jordon Ross Weinhold and more join the cast of PICT Classic Theatre's upcoming production of The Old Curiosity Shop.

On Sunday, December 9th, 'Burgh Vivant will present a staged reading of the classic comedy play Auntie Mame, featuring 2013 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Performer of the Year Daina Griffith in the title role.  The evening will benefit 'Burgh Vivant's mission to promote arts and culture in Pittsburgh. 

The opening production of PICT's 22nd Season is THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP, adapted and directed by Alan Stanford from the novel by Charles Dickens.

Martin Giles, Karen Baum, Jordon Ross Weinhold and more join the cast of PICT Classic Theatre's upcoming production of The Old Curiosity Shop.

On Friday, November 23rd PICT Classic Theatre will present the first production of it's 2018-2019 Season, The Old Curiosity Shop, at WQED's Fred Rogers Studio in Oakland.