Continuing my thoughts about the August Wilson American Century Cycle Experience, currently on stage at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company: with Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom having now opened in PPTCO’s brand-new cabaret space at Madison Arts Center, I’m struck by another common thread that links the three plays currently in production. All of them seem to be positing … … Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
In the lobby of the August Wilson house you can read a letter that Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company’s founder and artistic director Mark Clayton Southers wrote to August Wilson in 2002, describing his intent to establish a theater in Pittsburgh that would offer Black audiences stories that spoke to their history and lived experience. Wilson’s … … Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Some of our greatest actors have appeared in the prolific playwright's shows on and Off Broadway.| The Root
I have come here today… to talk about the ground on which I stand and all the many grounds on which I and my ancestors have toiled, and the ground of theater on which my fellow artists and I have l…| onStage Pittsburgh
Revelation. The impact of finally understanding the unseen forces that conspire to create our world. A reveal, made in a surprising fashion, usually leading to ecstasy or a heightened dramatic state. Revelation is the engine of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, the second play in August Wilson’s Century Cycle. Yet, it is noticeably absent from … Continue reading "‘Joe Turner’s Come and Gone…’ and He Took The Magic With Him"|