the press room
media coverage
Theater to Stream: Shakespeare Villains and Hot-Tub Dreams
"The most ambitious initiative yet may well be Post Theatrical, which encompasses 13 “mail-based theatrical experiences” from companies in the United States, Lebanon and Hong Kong.."
By Elisabeth Vincentelli, February 3, 2021
An Interactive, Innovative Audio Play
“Molly Rice, [co-]director of the Post Theatrical Festival and playwright Scott Adkins, whose interactive, audio play,
“Party Line” is featured in the festival, join to talk to us about their project, which came to life as theatres closed their doors.”
Radio interview on WNYC's All Of It by Alison Stewart, March 11, 2021
The Theater, Now Playing: Capricorn 29
"Self-described as a “micro movie musical,” this piece, presented by the Tank and the Post Theatrical festival, uses the Internet as both subject and platform....very funny...and...infernally catchy."
By Elisabeth Vincentelli, May 14, 2021
Two Digital Theater Projects Pretend to Put 20-Somethings' Live on the Line
"This cleverly constructed video production...is actually brilliant. What’s real...is the way every maker on the team handles and embroiders the digital fabric. In one gorgeous lyric, a voice tries to explain ...'The wall is a mirror,...the mirror is a door.'"
By Helen Shaw, June 8, 2021
Actors and Audiences Mail it In for Global Virtual Theater Festival
"[RealTime's Post Theatrical] functions partly as support group, partly as production think tank, partly as idea incubator."
By Tyler Dague, February 24, 2021
"...it was such an amazing discovery that there was this additional layer of tactile communication that could come from a live event.”
By Sean Collier, April 19, 2021
Pittsburgh's NPR News Station
Pittsburgh Theater Troupe Responds To Pandemic With Plays By Mail
"'We all are healing from something...or coming out of a process of healing for something,' said [Demaskus founder Shaunda] McDill. '[Black Mary] is ...an opportunity for people to take a journey that could land them in a better place of healing and feeling more liberated than they did when they started.'"
By Bill O'Driscoll, March 30, 2021
Mixed Media: How Artists Are Taking the 'Theater' Out of Theatre
“You've got mail! With the help of some incredible creativity (and the postal service) a number of companies have taken their shows offstage, offline, and straight into your mailbox, delivering an entirely new, interactive theatrical medium.”
By Alexa Criscietello, February 20, 2021
Festival of Plays-by-Mail Premieres Featuring 13 Projects From 6 States and Across the Globe
"The mail service arose from a need to communicate, like theater; and like theater, it's survived all manner of disease and disaster. This Spring, POST THEATRICAL will be celebrating that resilience."
By Suzanna Bowling, January 2021
“Discover how the country’s intricate web of postal routes serves as inspiration for communication, connection and creativity during this inventive theater festival running online through June...created by Pittsburgh’s RealTime Interventions."
by Jennifer Baron, Feb. 3rd, 2021
additional media coverage on individual projects
PARTY LINE, Scott Adkins
This Week In New York, March 4, 2021
BroadwayWorld,
Feb. 24, 2021
Talkin’ Broadway, Mar. 4, 2021
Frequent Business Traveller, Mar. 21, 2021
BLACK MARY, Demaskus Theater Collective
BroadwayWorld, Mar. 9, 2021
Sandi Durell’s Theater Pizzazz, Mar. 10, 2021
HVY Journalists (interview), March 18, 2021
Entertainment Central Pittsburgh, May 4, 2021
THE MAILBOX, Tiny Box Theater & Ya Chin Chang
BroadwayWorld, Apr. 29, 2021
Sandi Durell’s Theater Pizzazz, May 5, 2021
HVY Journalists, May 11, 2021
No Proscenium, June 15, 2021
CAPRICORN 29, Alex Hare & Julia Izumi
BroadwayWorld, Apr. 21, 2021
Times Square Chronicles, May 15, 2021
West End Best Friend, May 19, 2021
DC Metro Theater Arts,
June 3, 2021
SPITE & MALICE, Chelsea Sutton
BroadwayWorld Los Angeles (interview), Mar. 15, 2021
Stage and Cinema, Mar. 10, 2021
BroadwayWorld, Mar. 9, 2021
Noho Arts District,
Mar. 20, 2021
THE BIRTH OF PAPER, RealTime Interventions
Entertainment Central Pittsburgh, June 1, 2021
HVY Journalists, June 5, 2021
Rusted Radishes: Beirut Literary and Art Journal, June 29, 2021
Theater Without Borders (blog post), June 14, 2021
Al-Fanar Media, June 25, 2021
press release
Festival
of Plays-by-Mail Premieres POST THEATRICAL
featuring 13 projects from 6 states and across the globe
interview request form
