Founded in 1996 by Andrew S. Paul and Stephanie Riso, (PICT) has, in ten short years emerged as a significant contributor to the cultural fabric of Pittsburgh with almost 2000 loyal season subscribers, and annual attendance of over 23,000. A constituent member of theatre communications Group (TCG), PICT has garnered a yearly position on the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's list of the city's Top 50 Cultural Forces. The organization's productions are consistently ranked among the year's best by the critics of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and Pittsburgh City Paper. PICT was named Theatre of the Year-in both 2004 and 2006 by the critics of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

PICT is committed to telling the world's greatest stories and to using only the finest actors, directors, and designers in Pittsburgh and across the globe. We also strongly believe that the theatre can play an active role in creating civic dialogue about the issues of our time. In our blockbuster 2007 Season, All's Fair in Love and War, we performed Shakespeare's political thriller Julius Caesar side by side with David Hare's Stuff Happens, a brilliant new play illuminating the world in which we live today. We also celebrated a decade of great theatre with a sensational Pittsburgh premiere by Martin McDonagh and classic works by Henrik Ibsen, Noel Coward, and Jane Austen. 2008 brought Family Affairs, as we mounted an acclaimed production of Shakespeare's King Lear, starring the great Dakin Matthews; celebrated the variety and talent of Irish playwright Oscar Wilde with his classic An Ideal Husband, his verse play Salome, and a new musical based on two of his children's stories; took on the entire canon of John Millington Synge's works with the festival Synge Cycle; and rang in the holidays with two seasonal plays by hot new Irish playwright Conor McPherson. In 2009, we bring you NEW and IDEAL - featuring amazing new plays, a post-modern comedic classic, and new adaptations of two of the greatest novels of all time.