

2019 Review and 2020 Preview
Our final performance of Twelfth Night is this Saturday, November 23, which finishes our last touring production of the year. Executive Director Katherine Mayberry looks back at one season, and offers a taste of what's to come in 2020. During Pigeon Creek's 2019 season, we have produced acclaimed performances of Chekhov's The Seagull, Shakespeare's Richard III, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. We have also conducted many classroom workshops,

A Study Of Historical Music: Part 3 of 3
Part 3 of 3 In the 1st installment (1) of this blog, I talked a little about the kind of music we usually associate with performances of Shakespeare’s plays. Pigeon Creek often uses adaptations of familiar pop songs whose lyrics are topical to the play being performed, as pre-show and intermission entertainment, and I talked too, about how the music within the play – specifically the songs in the text – are just as important as costumes or scenic elements in setting the tone