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Douglas Heuck launched Pittsburgh Quarterly in 2006, following two decades of work as a highly regarded investigative reporter and business editor at the leading newspapers in Pittsburgh. The goal of Pittsburgh Quarterly is to deliver exceptional magazine journalism to the wider Pittsburgh community.

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PICT's "Miss Julie" a Triangle with Four Sides

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 . . .
Pittsburgh’s Contributions to the World, Pt. II

1 week ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Samuel Hazo |Richard Peterson |Barbara Eichenlaub |John Beale

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania have made to the world. The list has grown and grown, and despite our best efforts, we know we’ll leave out key contributors. I think you’ll find that this small city at the confluence of three rivers has played an astonishingly outsized role in the creation of this country and the world we inhabit.
Pittsburgh's Contributions to the World

2 weeks ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Samuel Hazo |Richard Peterson |Barbara Eichenlaub |John Beale

To celebrate the beginning of our 20th year, we’ve set out to catalogue the contributions that Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania have made to the world. The list has grown and grown, and despite our best efforts, we know we’ll leave out key contributors. I think you’ll find that this small city at the confluence of three rivers has played an astonishingly outsized role in the creation of this country and the world we inhabit.
Total War Over Cocktails

3 weeks ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Stuart Sheppard |Aakanksha Agarwal |Marianne Dougherty

If there’s a miracle in Pittsburgh Public Theater’s current performance of the 1962 Edward Albee play “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” — it’s that two well-educated couples can argue drunkenly for over three hours and never once broach the subject of politics. (And these couples are of different generations, no less). Of course, this would never happen today. But my oh my, how much more interesting conversation can be when the political realm is eschewed.
Magnificence Along the Clarion

1 month ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Thomas Saunders |Daryln Brewer Hoffstot |Doug Heuck |Joe Grant

A beautiful place to hike and explore in northwest Pennsylvania is Dutch Hill Forest, along the Clarion River in Heath Township, Jefferson County. The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy has protected more than 32,000 acres along the Clarion River, which was highly polluted decades ago but is now largely restored and a federally designated Wild and Scenic River.
The Bitch of Being a Witch

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).
Making It Happen

1 month ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Charlie Stewart |Richard Peterson |Brian O'Neill |Bill Christine

Mention the game of squash and it will likely conjure a traditional image of men in whites, whacking a hard, hollow ball off the walls of an enclosed court in the rarefied confines of a private club, prep school or eastern college. The indoor game with the long-necked racquet and dark rubber ball hasn’t always been that way, though. Its origins derive from a similar game called “rackets,” a descendent of tennis played in the prisons of London in the early 19th century.
How Baseball Brings Us Together

2 months ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Richard Peterson |Brian O'Neill |Bill Christine |Fred Shaw

A. G. Spalding once claimed that baseball likely began with the simple act of a boy tossing a ball into the air. The poet Donald Hall, who wrote a book about Pirates maverick pitcher Dock Ellis saw this simple act evolving into “sons playing catch with fathers” and eventually into a game “on a diamond that encloses what we are.”Baseball has a way of bringing out our best by linking us together.
Let Us Now Heal Wounded Men

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.
The Illustrious Order of Makesmiths

2 months ago | pittsburghquarterly.com | Marylynn Uricchio |Barbara Eichenlaub |Scott Bergstein |Kate Benz

It’s like no other place in the world because it exists in only one place — Blawnox. Walk into the just-opened Illustrious Order of Makesmiths and a wonderland of imagination explodes. To call it a store doesn’t do it justice — a gallery of curiosities is more accurate. Makesmiths is the vision of Squonk Opera co-founder Steve O’Hearn and his wife, Chief. Both are graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design who have been making “things” for decades.