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…
In 1856, British artist Henry Wallis completed “The Death of Chatterton.” The oil painting was Romantic with a capital “R”: a loving depiction of 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, who’d just committed suicide…
Quantum Theatre’s latest production, Chatterton, is adapted from Peter Ackroyd’s bestselling and Booker Prize-nominated novel of the same name, a century-spanning exploration of authenticity and literary counterfeiture (“one of those rare…
Dinner will be as big an attraction as the show when Quantum Theatre stages “Chatterton,” a world premiere adapted from Sir Peter Ackroyd’s novel about a Romantic-era poet. As in…
