Mike “Buzz” Buzzelli reviews COLLABORATORS by John Hodge at Quantum Theatre, directed by Jed Allen Harris, through April 30th, 2017. F‘Burgh Vivant films weekly at Point Park University’s Center for…
“Whizz! Bang! It’s off to the races with a comic chase scene, our hero pursued by an unmistakable Josef Stalin, one of the all-time monsters in the Hall of Despots,…
“There’s a diabolically funny moment in the first act of Collaborators: Josef Stalin (played with demonic relish by Martin Giles), having summoned playwright Mikhail Bulgakov (Tony Bingham) to his secret…
“Sometimes reality has a way of catching up to art. Quantum Theatre has been eyeing John Hodge’s Collaborators for four years, and announced it as the finale to the current…
“Collaborators, currently at Quantum Theatre, is by the British writer John Hodge. He is best known as the screenwriter for the two Trainspotting movies, and this play is another piece…
“Playwright meets tyrant. What could possibly go wrong? In a former slaughterhouse behind Bakery Square, Quantum Theatre takes audiences into the world of John Hodge’s Collaborators. Certainly a Pennsylvania premiere,…
“Audiences will be the first in the US to see Quantum’s highly anticipated premiere of the Olivier Award-winning play, Collaborators. Penned by John Hodge—best known for his screenplay for the…
“Quantum Theater presents “Collaborators” by John Hodge directed by CMU’s Jed Alan Harris through the end of the month on Hamilton Avenue just behind Bakery Square. From the writer of…
“The opening scene of “Collaborators” sets the tone of this black comedy: Russian playwright Mikhail Bulgakov and his wife are in bed, sleeping. There’s a knocking that slowly gets louder…
“‘Trainspotting’ writer John Hodge has mined a nugget of Russian history to address art vs. tyranny in “Collaborators,” a surrealist play about the time dissident writer Mikhail Bulgakov produced a…