PITTSBURGH — Karla Boos describes herself as a high-level, outside-the-box wizard. For the past 27 years, as the founder and artistic director of the Quantum Theatre Company in Pittsburgh, Boos has been…
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This fall will be a good time to be an arts patron in Pittsburgh. For eight weeks starting in September, the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts will host some 30…
Pittsburgher Gab Cody was born in Juneau, Alaska, moved to Wasilla, Alaska, and was 5 when her parents divorced and she and her mother departed. She left behind half-brothers six…
“British playwright Tom Stoppard has built a career writing plays about ideas. His first play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, was an existentialist comedy, in which two minor characters from Hamlet take…
““Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?” -William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice Master playwright Tom Stoppard’s The Hard Problem at Quantum Theatre should move to…
“In Tom Stoppard’s cerebral play, “The Hard Problem” the playwright explores René Descartes famous philosophical proposition, “Cogito ergo sum,” or, more roughly translated, “I think therefore I am.” A young attractive…
“Are we just a bunch of genes and neurons that direct our behavior? Where does consciousness come in? Those are among the questions asked in The Hard Problem, tackled by Quantum…
“In the Pittsburgh premiere of Tom Stoppard’s latest play, Quantum Theatre employs every tool in its creative arsenal as it paves the way to ponder “The Hard Problem.” Is the…
“Just when a lot of folks thought Tom Stoppard was done with playwriting, after a long and illustrious career of turning out plays that combine philosophical wit with serious issue-wrangling—his…
“Noted playwright Tom Stoppard’s latest work, “The Hard Problem,” will have its Pittsburgh premiere, Oct. 27 to Nov. 19 as a production of Quantum Theatre. The play tells the story…
