Seagull

DC Theater Arts - Adaptor and Director Joanie Schultz has condensed Chekhov's play, brought an entirely new perspective, and unleashed a company of talented actors.

Pittsburgh Quarterly - Gender-flipping classic roles in theater has become so commonplace that it’s now almost de rigueur.  What director wants to go to a hipster cocktail party these days…

Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents - It isn’t often that the location of a play is the setting. Quantum Theater’s production of ‘Seagull’ breaks that norm with a new adaptation set near…

WESA - Chekhov is one of a handful of playwrights from more than a century ago whose work still reliably shows up on American stages. He is pretty popular with…

The Pittsburgh Tatler - If you were to ask me what I love most about Chekhov as a writer, I’d probably say that it’s his ability to reveal – through…

Entertainment Central Pittsburgh - Two things to know about Seagull, the new adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s classic, now in its world-premiere run at Quantum Theatre (through August 17). The first is…

Tribune-Review - In the midst of the second act of Quantum Theatre’s “Seagull” on Sunday night, I was reminded of the first half of the Langston Hughes poem “Dreams”: “Hold fast…

‘Burgh Vivant - Everyone in Chekhov’s “Seagull” is stuck in a miasma of unrequited love, swirling around in their own emotions, drowning in them. Medvedendko (Evan Vines), the low paid…

onStage Pittsburgh - If you are going to adapt an oft-staged classic work by a founding father of modern theater, it certainly helps to have a clear-headed vision, brilliantly executed,…