Mike Vargo

as Joan

Quantum’s ‘Far Away’ Brings High-Quality Chiller Theater to Home Screens

An eerie dystopian play by Caryl Churchill gets a full-up film production from Pittsburgh’s Quantum Theatre.

Love blooms among the drudgery of work in a hat factory for Joan (Lisa Velten Smith) and Todd (Andrew William Smith) in Caryl Churchill's "Far Away" at Quantum Theatre. (photo: Heather Mull Photography).

February Theater Guide: New Ventures in Online Experience

The theater stream is starting to perk up again with some interesting productions.

looking for the light. 'One Night in Miami" stars (L to R) Leslie Odom Jr. as Sam Cooke

The Room Where It Happened: “One Night in Miami” 

The new movie about Muhammad Ali and his friends, based on real events in the turbulent Sixties, is scoring a knockout with Pittsburgh at-home viewers.

Jimmy Stewart

December Theater Guide: Full Stream Ahead

Holiday productions have gone on this year and there are many sugar plums.

Writer/performer Shua Potter nails it in 'Claws Out.' (photo: Kristi Jan Hoover)

City Theatre’s ‘Claws Out’ Rips a New Path to Holiday Cheer

‘Claws Out,’ subtitled ‘The Holiday Drag Musical,’ aims to be naughty AND nice.

' adapted from the August Wilson play

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Roars at the Manor (Wed., 12/2/20)

‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’

' adapted from the August Wilson play

“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Comes to the Big Screen

African-American musicians of the Roaring Twenties roar to life in the film made from August Wilson’s play.

Peter Beard

Big Show, Worth a Long Look: ‘Femme Touch’ at The Warhol 

Women, trans women, and queens take center stage in The Warhol’s museum-wide exhibition.

' which Pittsburgh Opera has reset in a World War I munitions plant—where people really did wear masks to avoid spreading the Spanish Flu. (photo: David Bachman Photography)

Pittsburgh Opera’s ‘Così fan tutte’ Is In-Person + Livestreamed; Boaz Frankel Closes Humanities Fest (Fri., 10/23/20)

Pittsburgh Opera’s ‘Così Fan Tutte,’ Boaz Frankel

' a fictional Snowden clone must confront his inner demons while wondering who's got his back. Quantum streams the play in the intimate-realism style of early TV

Quantum Breaks New Ground In an Old Way with ‘Wild’

The livestream of a modern psycho-thriller goes for realism like that of early TV dramas.

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