Dear Friends, I write as we open An Odyssey in the wide open air of Schenley Park, braving the elements without a tent, as we’ve done many times before. It...
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Quantum Theatre was down on the farm Sunday to celebrate its 30th anniversary with the Q Ball. Roselea Farm in Moon provided a sophisticated country vibe for the gathering, with a courtyard, barn and…
For its momentous 30th anniversary festivities, Quantum Theatre is taking the Q Ball revelry outdoors and on the road to Coraopolis. Reimagining its popular gala as an open-air farm dinner,…
WHEELING — Some of the most influential people in the fields of industry, education, public service, entertainment and other fields in Wheeling history gained official entry Friday night in a…
There’s a lot of good, and some might say great, art making going on at the Ice Skating Rink in Schenley Park. An unlikely place for such an endeavor you…
In all the productions I’ve attended over the past several decades, I’ve never seen a playwright attack the play he was adapting in the program notes. Jay Ball writes that…
Karla Boos founded Quantum Theatre three decades ago in Pittsburgh with a unique approach, experimenting with different formats that include everything from plays to operas. Instead of working from a fixed…
THE FIRST THING to realize about Quantum Theatre’s An Odyssey is that it is not a standard re-staging of The Odyssey, the epic adventure fable written 28 centuries ago by the Greek poet Homer…
Imagine, if you will, one of those old-fashioned TV game shows with two doors. Behind Door Number One is the Odysseus we all know from the Homerian epic: valiant hero,…
With thanks to Stephen King, “Everything old is new again.” And you can’t get much older than The Odyssey, the classical epic which historians date to the seventh or eighth century…
