Quantum Theatre has announced its 2026-2027 season, a three-production lineup including a world premiere, exploring “haunting returns, unexpected reckonings, and bold new beginnings,” while continuing the company’s long-running tradition of staging performances in unconventional spaces throughout Pittsburgh. The season also marks… Read More ›
In Quantum Theatre’s “10 Out of 12,” the audience is privy to what goes on onstage, behind the scenes and in the booth during the technical rehearsal for the play with the play.
An effervescent brew of curiosity and creativity personified, Karla Boos is a risk-taker in the risky business of theater. For 35 years, the founder and artistic director of Quantum Theatre has been a driving force of originality for the region’s arts scene. Boos will be relinquishing her role at the end of 2026, after arriving in 1990 with Pedro Paramo, an anticipated one-off project, based on the short novel by Mexican author Juan Rulfo.
Oh, the places she would go, and take adventurous theaters along for the ride.
By SHARON EBERSON To be Hamlet is to be a student prince bound to seek revenge for his father’s death, and to be indecisive in the task. Anything else is as you like it. More to the point, to borrow a… Read More ›
The setting at the Carrie Furnaces site has moved outdoors during preproduction By SHARON EBERSON For all those who believe in destiny, it was preordained that Treasure Treasure was meant to be Quantum Theatre’s Hamlet.“On a whim,” she had randomly… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON With a unique display of First Folios as a backdrop, Quantum Theatre previewed its 2023-24 season, which includes Hamlet and the return to the scene of another Bard tragedy. Quantum will be taking up residence again at… Read More ›
By Yvonne Hudson The profound parallels of family memories and survival intersect in both life and art. Quantum Theatre’s The Cherry Orchard, running through July 31, resonates with the churn of individual lives and society, exploring how uncontrollable change can… Read More ›
Quantum Theatre founder and artistic director Karla Boos takes on thee iconic role of Madame Ranevskaya in “The CherryOrchard.” I relate to her, in that she’s on a different
wavelength,” Boos says, “where certain things make sense that come from her heart.”
By Sharon Eberson It would be nice if time travel was as easy as saying: “See you later. It’s later.” In Will Arbery‘s Plano, people go from now to then just that quickly. “That sucked me in at first, that… Read More ›
Chimerica Reviewed by Jessica Neu It is often said that great writing begins with a question. As our world becomes increasingly globalized, digitized, but also volatile, questions related to public memory, heroism, censorship, and the importance of historical interpretations move… Read More ›
