When looking at theatre in the mid-Atlantic region that includes New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, it’s easy to be distracted by the giant sucking sound that is the vacuum of…
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Karla Boos built Quantum Theatre to meet challenges usually of her own making. She has often said that she is fascinated by text that she doesn’t quite understand and energized…
Quantum Theatre will host four evenings of live online programming, featuring seven Pittsburgh-area actor couples who cohabit in real life. The text will come from Caryl Churchill’s “Love and Information,”…
Quantum Theatre leader Karla Boos, whose productions have taken theatergoers from lake shores to abandoned bath houses to historic landmarks, has heralded the coming of “a season of live events” at…
Karla Boos is the creative force behind Quantum Theatre, a theater company known for staging experimental productions in unusual places. Originally from West Virginia, Ms. Boos founded Quantum in 1990…
#SEENQBallMagic: If I had to pick a top five for the year, Quantum Theatre’s Q Ball would make the cut because of its incredible creativity and ability to attract people from…
With “Cambodian Rock Band” and “King Lear” as a jumping-off point, Pittsburgh theater this year demonstrated time and again the vast range of choices and talent in our midst, enhancing…
But be of good cheer: “Shakespeare’s Will” is not a docudrama carved out of research, nor even an angry plea for the ignored spouse, but something better. Mr. Thiessen’s play…
McKenna does a spectacular job as Hathaway. She is a commanding presence. While it is a one-woman show, she interacts with two characters in non-speaking roles, Hamnet (Simon Nigam) and…
When William Shakespeare died in 1616, he left behind dozens of plays and hundreds of poems, but little other than a last will and testament to shed light on his…
