2015-2016 Season

Pittsburgh City Paper - By design, Quantum Theatre has staged plays in dozens of interesting and unlikely places over its 26 years. (In fact the troupe has created a contest and...

Guernica Magazine - A production of the Ibsen play embraces an unorthodox space. Quantum Theatre’s artistic director Karla Boos arrives at Zeke’s Coffee House on Penn Avenue in Pittsburgh, helmet...

Pittsburgh City Paper - A modernized production conveys both freshness and Ibsen's original symbolism. The beauty of minimalism is that it can make the abstract more tangible. Quantum Theatre’s modernization...

The Pittsburgh Tatler - You take the elevator to the ninth floor of the Allegheny Center and enter into a vast, empty concrete space with floor to ceiling windows and...

Entertainment Central Pittsburgh - Strange voices speak in Henrik Ibsen’s play The Master Builder. On the night I saw Quantum Theatre’s new production, one of the strangest came from a young woman...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - A room with a view is a wonderful perk, but as a backdrop, it can be a distraction or, worse, competition for a work such as “The...

Quantum’s affinity for Ibsen continues in collaboration with the Heinz Architectural Center of the Carnegie Museum of Art as part of their year-long focus on Modernism. Quantum stages The Master Builder mid-20th Century, and take audiences inside an iconic Modernist structure of some controversy: the soon-to-be-reimagined Nova Place (formerly Allegheny Center on the Northside), and into the mind of architect Halvard Solness, whose principles drive him past conventional morality and threaten to destroy him.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - The ninth floor of 2 Allegheny Center displays the sort of stunning views you see in movies where the wealthy protagonist lives in a window-encased luxury high-rise....