Vicky A. Clark

1 day ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Stuart Sheppard |Aakanksha Agarwal |Marianne Dougherty |Vicky A. Clark

Modern adaptations of classic plays often look like someone wearing borrowed clothes: they don’t fit quite right, and it’s obvious that the person wearing them had to struggle to put them on. But when an adaptation of a play like August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” (1888) really does justice to its antecedent and fits the subject matter – such as in PICT’s current production at Carnegie Stage — we as the audience get a double reward . . .

1 month ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Stuart Sheppard |Vicky A. Clark |Aakanksha Agarwal |Marianne Dougherty

Sometime around the turn of the millennium – resulting from what I would ascribe to the rise of social media and cable broadcasting — the term “trope” began to lose its classic and pregnant meaning of “figure of speech,” (i.e. an expression used in a nonliteral sense).

2 months ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Stuart Sheppard |Vicky A. Clark |Aakanksha Agarwal |Marianne Dougherty

One thing, as men, that we rarely talk about, are the experiences we have suffered in the form of sexual abuse or trauma. The National Institute of Health found that 30.7 percent of men report having been the victims of sexual violence . . . and more than half of those before the age of 16. A 2014 study found that it takes on average about 20 years for a man to talk about his history of sexual maltreatment, because of the implicit stigma, coupled with our societal mores regarding masculinity.

Jul 8, 2024 | lexology.com | Vicky A. Clark

A research contract between a small drug development company, Innovate Pharmaceuticals (Innovate), relating to pre-clinical in vitro research carried out by Portsmouth University (Portsmouth), was the subject of a judgment from the High Court in January this year. Innovate was awarded damages of £1 million as a result of Portsmouth’s breach of the research contract, but the sum could have been much higher if Portsmouth’s liability had not been capped in the contract.

Jun 20, 2024 | pittsburghquarterly.com | Vicky A. Clark |Stuart Sheppard |Aakanksha Agarwal

Home › Article › The Frick Brings “Once in a Lifetime” Exhibition to Pittsburgh In the business of collecting art, father and daughter, Henry Clay (1849-1919) and Helen Clay Frick (1888-1984), were a formidable duo. Helen was devoted to him, never changing Clayton, their Pittsburgh home, after her father decamped to New York. She chose to remain in his shadow, but he did include her early in his pursuit of the best art available.