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What’s in the Box? Quantum Theatre’s ‘Caligari’ Questions the Horror of Modern Times

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Pittsburgh Independent -“What is to be done?” The final image projected on the stage during Quantum’s production of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari leaves its audience with the question: Is it better…
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“The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” at Quantum Theatre

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The Pittsburgh Tatler - At the beginning of my previous post I promised to write about two current productions that take a “theatrically inventive approach to very familiar material ……

6 Things to Do in Pittsburgh This Weekend

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Pittsburgh Magazine - Two very different on-stage fantasies, “The Hobbit” and “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” lead us into the weekend. “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”: There’s another theatrical fantasy running…
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‘The Horror Is Still Out There’—Quantum Revisits ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’

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Entertainment Central Pittsburgh - One thing you must say about playwright Jay Ball’s adaptation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Amid the spookiness and the grim foreboding of bad things waiting…
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Review: Dark Forces Take Hold in Quantum’s Haunting ‘Caligari’

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onStage Pittsburgh - Sit back, but don’t expect to relax. Quantum Theatre’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari assaults from all sides, in a dark and cautionary tale of man’s capacity for cruelty and…
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Who’s Afraid of the Autocracy – a review of “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”

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‘Burgh Vivant - In 70s East Germany, long before Ronald Reagan asked Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the wall, actress and unrepentant socialist,  Helene Weigel (Catherine Gowl) graces her theatre…
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Pittsburgh troupe recasts ‘Dr. Caligari’ as a political fable

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WESA - A carnival sideshow performer, an old man, promises his audience wonders. He opens a coffin-like wooden container to reveal a somnambulist — a perpetual sleepwalker under his command.…
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Staging ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’ Is Right Out of Quantum’s Out-of-the-Box Playbook

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onStage Pittsburgh - Jed Harris had declared The Odyssey for Quantum Theatre as his directorial swan song … until he was lured back by a tantalizing title. The invitation to collaborate came from his longtime…