The Master Builder

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…

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.…