The River

Pittsburgh Quarterly - In Richard Brautigan’s classic surrealist novel, Trout Fishing In America, the narrator visits a store selling trout streams by the foot. They are stacked in piles like pieces of...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - On its base level, “The River” is about a sports fanatic — in this case, fly fishing — whose passions don’t translate well with women. In Quantum...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Theater crowds of the past marveled at the sensation of reality when a chandelier or helicopter dropped from the ceiling. Andrew William Smith says he’s not sure...

Pittsburgh City Paper - There are so many layers and word plays in this fish tale. Quantum Theatre’s production of Jez Butterworth’s The River is funny, romantic, poetic — and almost entirely...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - All the human necessities are gathered under one roof in “The River,” an hourlong mystery about love, life and trout. An outdoorsman has taken his new girlfriend...

Tribune-Review - Quantum Theatre's next play is a mystery and a drama with a tinge of magical realism, says its director Adil Mansoor. “The world you are staring at is...

Pittsburgh City Paper - The River is about a man, two women and fishing. Or is it? Part of the lure of this 2014 work by acclaimed British playwright Jez Butterworth...

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NEXTpittsburgh - Devotees of The Boss are not the only ones going down to The River this season. Fans of contemporary theater should flock to Aspinwall Riverfront Park to catch Quantum Theatre‘s latest...