Here are the top 10 Pittsburgh shows of 2018, drawn from the year’s local productions and tours, big theaters and small, straight plays and musicals, and an additional list of…
Thank you to everyone who experienced Chatterton. Maybe you were only able to come once and are interested in the other journeys. Maybe you just want some more information on…
The Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts comes around once every five years and I’ve seen virtually everything that its sponsor, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, has had to offer. I feel…
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It’s a mystery, or rather, several. A biography, or maybe three. A romantic narrative. A workout! It’s Quantum Theatre’s multidimensional, sometimes daunting new “Chatterton,” a play by Karla Boos now…
As the story goes, Romantic-era poet Thomas Chatterton took his own life as a teenager in 1770 – but a painting that appears to show him as an adult might tell a…
Here’s what I know: In 1988 British writer Peter Ackroyd published Chatterton, a multi-layered work using, as it’s starting point, the life and death of 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton. If we know…
In the mystery tale “The Garden of Forking Paths,” a learned Chinese nobleman announces he is retiring from public life to go off and “construct a labyrinth.” Years pass, with…
As part of the Pittsburgh International Festival of Firsts, Quantum Theatre’s ambitious, immersive World Premiere production of Chatterton, opened at the Trinity Cathedral in downtown Pittsburgh September 14. Adapted by Karla Boos…
What – or who – is Chatterton? Well, that depends on how much you trust the historical record, and, I guess, whether you believe anything can be verified by documents…