Alan Stanford News

12 Peers Theater will present White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour, coming from successful runs at the Edinburgh and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals, as well as a continuing New York City run being performed Monday nights at West Side Theatre. The experimental solo performance features a new actor every night and runs April 7-24, 2016 at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater in Downtown Pittsburgh. The rotating cast will feature Matt Henderson, Richard Keitel, Christopher Josephs, Julia Geisler, Wayne Brinda, Ingrid Sonnichsen, Hayley Nielsen, John Feightner, David Crawford, Nick Mitchell, Shaun Hall, Todd Betker, Alan Stanford, Brian Edward, Jeffrey Carpenter, Diana Ifft, and Richard Rauh.

12 Peers Theater will present White Rabbit Red Rabbit by Nassim Soleimanpour, coming from successful runs at the Edinburgh and Philadelphia Fringe Festivals, as well as a continuing New York City run being performed Monday nights at West Side Theatre. The experimental solo performance features a new actor every night and runs April 7-24, 2016 at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater in Downtown Pittsburgh. The rotating cast will feature Matt Henderson, Richard Keitel, Christopher Josephs, Julia Geisler, Wayne Brinda, Ingrid Sonnichsen, Hayley Nielsen, John Feightner, David Crawford, Nick Mitchell, Shaun Hall, Todd Betker, Alan Stanford, Brian Edward, Jeffrey Carpenter, Diana Ifft, and Richard Rauh.

Passions will run high at PICT Classic Theatre's third annual UnCommon Pleas. The Court of UnCommon Pleas will convene on April 7, 2016, at 6 p.m., at the Duquesne Club- a fitting forum to hear the appeal of The Merchant of Venice.

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.

Steven Alschuler, President of Pittsburgh-based public relations firm Alschuler Communications, has been named President of the Board of Directors of PICT Classic Theatre. PICT, founded in 1996 as Pittsburgh Irish and Classic Theatre, produces high-quality classic theater and considers educational programs and outreach to underserved communities to be among its core initiatives.

PICT Classic Theatre is pleased to announce that its production of OLIVER TWIST will open tonight, December 5th.

PICT Classic Theatre is pleased to announce that its production of OLIVER TWIST will open on December 5th with previews tonight and tomorrow, the 3rd and 4th.

After a total staff lay-off, the cancellation of a production and a series of very real discussions about whether PICT should close its doors forever, PICT Classic Theatre is pleased to announce its return to the Pittsburgh theatre scene.

After struggling to raise money to fund the upcoming production of OLIVER TWIST, PICT Classic Theatre was forced to lay off staff members in order to keep the show going.

PICT Classic Theatre is pleased to announce that its production of OLIVER TWIST will open on December 5th with previews on the 3rd and 4th.

PICT Classic Theatre announced today that due to a significant shortfall in funding, its production of The Tempest, which was scheduled to open on October 10th, has been canceled. PICT's current production of Educating Rita, opening on September 5th, will go on as planned. Decisions about the remainder of the season will be made by PICT's Board of Directors in the coming days.

Oakland will be bustling this September when the students return to their dormitories to begin a new year of study. During this time, from tonight, September 3, through September 19, PICT Classic Theatre will present Educating Rita by Willy Russell, which was selected, in part, so that PICT can bid the University of Pittsburgh a fond farewell before leaving the Stephen Foster Memorial in 2016.

Oakland will be bustling this September when the students return to their dormitories to begin a new year of study. During this time, from September 3 through 19, PICT Classic Theatre will present Educating Rita by Willy Russell, which was selected, in part, so that PICT can bid the University of Pittsburgh a fond farewell before leaving the Stephen Foster Memorial in 2016.

PICT Classic Theatre will enter its twentieth year in 2016, and today PICT announced a number of changes to its current and upcoming seasons, including an expanded schedule, additional productions and a move to a more flexible model of performance venues.

Raucous, raw and rock-inflected: you've never heard cabaret like this before.

A little infidelity goes a long way in PICT Classic Theatre's How the Other Half Loves by Alan Ayckbourn, running from May 28 through June 13 upstairs in the Stephen Foster Memorial in Oakland.

PICT Classic Theatre, now in its nineteenth season, is pleased to unveil a series of Adult Theatre Classes- its newest program under the PICT Educates banner. Aimed at connecting the PICT professional theatrical community with the Pittsburgh community at large, PICT will offer classes in its new studio in the South Side for adults with an interest in acting.

PICT Classic Theatre's Artistic & Executive Director Alan Stanford just used up his three weeks of 2015 vacation days, but few people would classify taking the Gate Theatre's production of Pride and Prejudice to the 43rd Hong Kong Arts Festival as a time of rest and relaxation. Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austin and adapted and directed by Alan Stanford, ran from March 5 through March 15 at the Lyric Theatre in the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, and every single performance was sold-out.

A storm is brewing in Pittsburgh as PICT Classic Theatre sets the stage for its second annual UnCommon Pleas. The event will place two of Shakespeare's most well-known characters, Prospero and Caliban of The Tempest, on trial in front of a panel of federal and state court judges.

It's a new year, and PICT Classic Theatre opens its nineteenth season out of the gate with a world-premiere, For the Tree to Drop, written by celebrated local actress Lissa Brennan. Part of PICT's brand-new Downtown Series, it is no coincidence that this compelling piece will run tonight, February 19 - 28, during Black History Month, at the Peirce Studio inside The Trust Arts Education Center at 805 Liberty Avenue.