“An Odyssey” at Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA
Imagine, if you will, one of those old-fashioned TV game shows with two doors. Behind Door Number...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 7th Sep 2021 | Adaptation, Review, United States of America
Imagine, if you will, one of those old-fashioned TV game shows with two doors. Behind Door Number...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 9th Feb 2020 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
There’s no way Artistic Director Marya Sea Kaminski could possibly have predicted that the...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 22nd Jan 2020 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
In Jungian psychology, the house symbolizes the mind, with the basement representing the deepest...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 2nd Jan 2020 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
When William Shakespeare died in 1616, he left behind dozens of plays and hundreds of poems, but...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 25th Dec 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
The title of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play tells you a certain...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 24th Dec 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
Allow me to introduce you to the fierce yet fragile preteens who populate Clare Barron’s savagely...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 23rd Dec 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, Theatre and Politics, United States of America
After he won the World Heavyweight Championship by roundly defeating Sonny Liston on February...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 16th Oct 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
Lauren Yee’s new play Cambodian Rock Band is one of the most-produced plays in the 2019-20...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 15th Oct 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
Do you know where your data is? I sure don’t. But I’ve been thinking about my data – and the...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 14th Oct 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
Ah, if only we could take a trip back in time, to an era when the surfacing of facts that pointed...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 23rd Sep 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
Some theater thrills because it resonates with the Zeitgeist; some thrills because the...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 2nd Sep 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
A couple of weeks ago The New Yorker featured an article by Kelefa Sanneh about the work of Dr....
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 13th Aug 2019 | The Pittsburgh Tatler
Does the name Violeta Parra ring a bell? If it does, it’s likely because of Joan Baez’s cover of...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 13th Aug 2019 | The Pittsburgh Tatler
Stephen Belber’s new play We Are Among Us pries open the lid on what one of its characters...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 20th May 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
Quantum’s marketing slogan for this season is “theater that moves you,” and its production of...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 10th Mar 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
The Octoroon is a 19th-century melodrama by Irish playwright Dion Boucicault that tells the story...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 29th Jan 2019 | Pittsburgh, Review, The Pittsburgh Tatler, United States of America
Playwright/poet/performer Brian Quijada has hope for the future. That’s not an easy orientation to...
Read MorePosted by Wendy Arons | 22nd Nov 2018 | The Pittsburgh Tatler
I’ve expressed in previous posts my impression that certain recent plays – among them, Hir and The...
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