Good theater can be simultaneously ephemeral and eternal. Fail to see a show before it closes, and you’ve missed that production forever. On the other hand, some shows live on in memory long after the costumes have been packed away and the sets consigned to the warehouse or the dumpster. A list of the year’s best is… Read more »
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Best Play of the Year
By Sharon Eberson and Christopher Rawson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Looking back, 2012 isn’t as remarkable for individual, soaring achievements as for its high plateaus — solid exciting work from many theaters. This makes picking the year’s top 10 difficult because our list of the best theater evenings could go on past the 20 honored below;… Read more »
City Paper: Pittsburgh Irish & Classical’s The School for Lies
Pittsburgh Irish & Classical’s The School for Lies Playwright David Ives is funnier than you and I combined, but the experiment sometimes drags. by Robert Isenberg Photo courtesy of Michelle BelanMartin Giles, Ben Blazer, Nike Doukas and James FitzGerald in PICT’s The School for Lies THE SCHOOL FOR LIES continues through Dec. 15.Charity Randall Theatre Stephen Foster Memorial… Read more »
Post-Gazette: ‘The School for Lies’ full of class and wit
December 4, 2012 12:11 am By Christopher Rawson / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sometimes you come home from a play wishing you could curl up with the script. It happens with a movie, too, as when you want to go back to the novel it adapted. But with “The School for Lies,” the sumptuous, smart, physically playful and… Read more »
Tribune Review: Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre’s ‘School for Lies’ is witty break from holiday sentiment
By Alice T. Carter Published: Tuesday, December 4, 2012, 8:53 p.m. Updated: Tuesday, December 4, 2012 REVIEW For those already experiencing sensory overload from seasonal celebrations, amusements and sales promotions, Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre offers an alternate diversion. There’s nary a hint of holly nor a bough of tinsel-bedecked pine to be found anywhere at “The School for Lies,”… Read more »
Tribune Review: ‘School for Lies’ delights in clever repartee, twists and turns
By Alice T. Carter Published: Wednesday, November 28, 2012, 8:51 p.m. Updated: Monday, December 3, 2012 Cuddled together in a booth at the Double Wide Grill, actors Nike Doukas and Leo Marks are the picture of a contented couple. When they converse, their eyes lock onto each other. They finish each other’s sentences. Responses to interview questions overlap… Read more »
Post-Gazette: PICT’s ‘The School for Lies’ puts a contemporary twist on Moliere
Preview: Parisians behaving badly November 29, 2012 9:21 am By Sharon Eberson / Pittsburgh Public Theatre Costume designer Joan Markert introduces the whimsical edginess of an Alexander McQueen runway show to the 17th-century Parisians behaving badly in Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre’s “The School for Lies.” ‘The School for Lies’ Where: Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre at… Read more »
PICT 2013 Season
Contact: Michelle Belan Marketing Director 412.561.6000 x203 mbelan@picttheatre.org RELEASE ON OR AFTER AUGUST 15, 2012 “SCANDAL” TAKES CENTER STAGE IN PICT’s 2013 SEASON Tolstoy and Beethoven, a sexy new look at Don Juan, a unique collaboration with The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and the return of Oscar Wilde, Martin McDonagh, and the Victorian crime-fighting duo… Read more »
Ivanov
AMERICAN PREMIERE OF TOM STOPPARD’S HILARIOUS NEW ADAPTATION OF IVANOV CONTINUES PICT’S CHEKHOV CELEBRATION – OPENING AUGUST 4th Media Contact: Michelle Belan Marketing Director Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre mbelan@picttheatre.org 412-561-6000 x203 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE _______________________________________________________________________ Pittsburgh, PA – July 23, 2012. PICT’s celebration of Anton Chekhov continues with the American premiere of Tom… Read more »
Three Sisters
Media Contact: Michelle Belan Marketing Director Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre mbelan@picttheatre.org 412-561-6000 x203 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Pittsburgh, PA – July 2, 2012. PICT opens its Festival celebrating the works of Anton Chekhov with Paul Schmidt’s translation of Three Sisters. This production features Nike Doukas as Ólga, Allison McLemore as Másha, as Vera Varlamov… Read more »
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