Tony Bingham (as Margaret Thatcher) and Susan Tsu “Susan Tsu has a delicious imagination,” says Pantagleize director Jed Allen Harris. Tsu, an internationally renowned designer and faculty member at the…
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There’s a tyrant. There’s an underground revolutionary movement. There’s a bumbling intellectual and an accidental revolution. There’s farce and absurdity and biting commentary on the state of the world. There’s…
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“You don’t go to plays with Quantum,” says Madagascar star Helena Ruoti, “You experience them.” For more than a decade, Ruoti has been active in the Pittsburgh theater scene, rising…
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The challenge: to design characters who share the same space—but not the same time. The characters in J.T. Rogers’ Madagascar inhabit a single suite in a Roman hotel, ghosting each…
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Whatever people do, they have a very good reason to do so. What is done—whatever action is done—is for a reason. Woven together, these actions create a pattern. As a…
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“We always stayed in this hotel just off the Piazza di Spagna, here in my favorite room. I’d take them by the hand and stand out on that veranda. ‘Just…
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You’re in Rome. Before you is a baroque suite in an expensive hotel overlooking the fountain of the Piazza di Spagna, the cascading beauty of the Spanish Steps. With the…
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For the first time in half a decade, Quantum Theatre is coming back to Downtown. The nomadic theatre company is poised to take over the majestic Union National Bank lobby…
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Strange Interlude by Eugene O’Neill (at The National Theatre)…may have been my favorite thing of all. The play made a big impression on me when I read it– in 1979 (ha)–…
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Wanted to share a few shots of the beautiful scenery, art, monuments in Edinburgh… Outdoor theatre… enchanting, isn’t it? Monument to Sir Walter Scott. I read Ivanhoe as a little…
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