Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Here are the top 10 Pittsburgh shows of 2018, drawn from the year’s local productions and tours, big theaters and small, straight plays and musicals, and an additional list of big events and a busier than usual year of comings and goings.
“Chatterton,” Quantum Theatre/Festival of Firsts (September). Who but Karla Boos could adapt Peter Ackroyd’s imaginative version of the puzzling life of 18th-century author Thomas Chatterton, dead at 17, and his reverberations in succeeding centuries, and set the audience traipsing through the many rooms of Trinity Cathedral? As writer and director of this world premiere, she was assisted by Martin Giles and a crackerjack cast, and she served also as producer in her dual roles as artistic director of Quantum and curator of the festival.
