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Pittsburgh's Quantum Theatre names Katie Brook new artistic director

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By Bill O'Driscoll Verified
| WESA-FM (Pittsburgh, PA) Verified
Karla Boos founded Quantum Theatre in 1990 and has been its lone artistic director ever since, guiding Quantum through adventuresome, site-specific productions that made it arguably Pittsburgh’s signature independent theater company. That will change Jan. 1. With Boos retiring, the company announced Wednesday it had concluded its national search by hiring as its new artistic director Katie Brook, a nationally known producer, director and educator with strong Pittsburgh ties.
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Flight 93 passengers, crew to be honored with chalk art at memorial to commemorate 25th anniversary

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By Bill O'Driscoll Verified
| WESA-FM (Pittsburgh, PA) Verified
This Friday marks 25 years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. A number of events will be held this year at the Flight 93 National Memorial near Shanksville, Pa., to honor the 40 passengers and crew members who heroically prevented hijackers from flying into the U.S. Capitol that day. Among them will be a chalk art tribute, as 20 artists from around the country create chalk portraits of those who died that day.
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First-ever production from Pittsburgh playwright debuts at the August Wilson House

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By Bill O'Driscoll Verified
| WESA-FM (Pittsburgh, PA) Verified
In my recent WESA profile of a.k. payne, I tried to convey how unusual it is for Pittsburgh to host the world premiere of a new work by a nationally acclaimed young playwright who also happens to live here. While watching the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Co. production of payne’s “BURNBABYBURN! the american dream” this week, outdoors in the backyard of the August Wilson House, I wondered whether I tried hard enough. That’s largely due to the 28-year-old payne’s considerable success.
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