The Stagehand

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…

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 ……

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…

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…

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…

‘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…

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.…

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…

WQED - Today we draw the curtain back to hear about Quantum Theatre’s adaptation of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: An Out of the Box Theatrical Experience. This show runs…

Table Magazine - Quantum Theatre, one of Pittsburgh’s most innovative theater companies, has a new theatrical interpretation of the classic silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. From playwright Jay Ball,…