Visit Pittsburgh – Quantum Theatre presents thought-provoking works in a variety of creative settings.
This August, Quantum Theatre kicks off its 2024-25 season at Longue Vue Club in Verona, while bringing “contemporary resonance” to Eugene O’Neill’s final work “A Moon for the Misbegotten.” The outdoor production allows audiences to enjoy the poignant love story in a unique setting — beneath a real moon and tapestry of stars.
Get to Know: Quantum Theatre
Quantum, a company of progressive, professional artists, consistently explores themes of truth, beauty and human relationships in uncommon venues that range from an urban excavation where street noises can be heard throughout the performance, to a warehouse in wintertime, which means spectators require blankets during the show.
Karla Boos, founder and artistic director of Quantum Theatre, started the company in 1990. “I’d come from Los Angeles,” she explains, “knowing Pittsburgh a bit and feeling it was the right size city where I could make something happen, and that the things I brought would be different.”
Boos was interested in experimenting. She’d been to CalArts, which was both global and encouraged artists working together across disciplines, making her want to create work that also bore those influences. “I was following international theater makers like Robert Lepage, Complicite, Ariane Mnouchkine,” she says.
So she created a company that aims to move people with their experiments. The Quantum website declares the following: “We give voice to artists who invest deeply and touch the personal, even as they tell a tale, a far-off, magical, scary, too-close-to-home, knee-slapping, sob-inducing tale.”
