Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: PICT Classical Theatre is branching out from its Oakland digs to Downtown and expanding its productions from five to seven for the 2015 season.
The season will launch with the inaugural production of a work by local actress-writer Lissa Brennan and the musical revue “Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris” at the Trust Arts Education Center before returning to PICT’s home base in the Stephen Foster Memorial.
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This past summer, I interned at PICT Theatre. While working there, they were in the process of developing their upcoming season so it was exciting to see what plays they chose. I think it is an interesting season to say the least. The choice to start moving some shows downtown to a studio space is a fascinating choice. I see where they are coming from with some of their frustration with the University of Pittsburgh. To aim to try to bring theatre to people all year round is difficult when you must work around a school. Although the program is not as intense at Pitt, imagine trying to stage a season at CMU. It would be nearly impossible. I also think the move downtown was a good choice because so much of the "successful" theatre is downtown I think they may be able to bring a different audience with a studio space in that location.
I think it's fabulous that they are moving downtown. They need the change if they are wanting to expand and do the two extra shows per season. I'm interested to see how the season will go with the combination of shows that they currently have. I think it's really important that they try to do shows year-round. It helps the cohesiveness of the theatre to be able to flow from one show to the other.
I did my a report on Pict for Basic Design and from what I had learned, it seemed as though Pict was ready to do some expanding. They seem to have a pretty strong support base and now is the time to "get their toes wet" as Alan Stanford said. They seem to put on good theater and it is a shame in the past they have had so many road blocks to do what they really wanted to do and hopefully this new space, even if not at first, will help them grow as a theater company.
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