August | 2025 | The Pittsburgh Tatler
4 posts published by wkarons during August 2025| The Pittsburgh Tatler
4 posts published by wkarons during August 2025| The Pittsburgh Tatler
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
We live in cynical times, Dear Reader. And there is perhaps no playwright whose work captures, with dark wit, the many dimensions through which contemporary cynicism expresses itself than Irish-Bri…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
2 posts published by wkarons during July 2025| The Pittsburgh Tatler
The title of this festival is pretty much all you need to know about its content: on tap is a …Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
If you were to ask me what I love most about Chekhov as a writer, I’d probably say that it’s …Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Your Tatler has been out of town for much of the summer; the ‘burgh has welcomed her back not only with oppressive heat (ugh) but also a rich offering of theater, music, and art in the coming weeks…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
The time: 1974. The place: a fishing boat bobbing in the ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The situation: …Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Front Porch Theatricals has once again rummaged around in the attic of theater history and dusted off a forgotten musical. …Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Embers is a play that’s easy to describe but difficult to categorize. Adapted by Christopher Hampton from a novel by Hungarian writer Sandor Marai, the play depicts the reunion, after 41 years, of …| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Reader, let me get your first concern out of the way: even though basketball – and, particularly, basketball legend LeBron James – are important to its characters, you yourself really do not need t…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Hypocrisy is in the air, dear Reader. No, I’m not talking about the shitshow in Washington, although obviously it hangs thick there; rather, I’m talking about what’s on our local stages, and, in a …| The Pittsburgh Tatler
It’s an elementary school cheat, but I’m going to start this post with a definition: Unreconciled: 1) not brought into harmony, incompatible; 2) not reconciled or mollified; 3) theology&n…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
There is a ride at Hershey Park called Storm Runner that “launches riders from 0-72 miles per hour in 2 seconds flat and that is just the beginning.” That’s about as good a description as I can thi…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
In Quantum Theatre’s production of A Moon for the Misbegotten, the shanty where the Hogan family lives may be sparsely furnished, but it’s filled with repressed desires and longings. L to R: Brett…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
One thing is almost certain: David Mamet’s Oleanna will likely piss you off. But the reason why it will piss you off will also (almost certainly) vary. And – if you’re like me, and have read or see…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
