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Review: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ is solid, if inexact, adaptation of a classic

By Sinead McDevitt, Senior Staff Writer • January 22, 2021

Ma Rainey and her band are recording her new record, but several incidents make the process rather long and troublesome.

Pitt acquires archive of late playwright August Wilson

By Charlie Taylor, Culture Editor • October 30, 2020

Wilson wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning plays “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson,” which are part of his 10-play “Pittsburgh Cycle,” or “American Century Cycle.”

Pitt publishes open-access August Wilson Journal

By Benjamin Nigrosh, Staff Writer • October 29, 2019

When Pitt published the first volume of the first scholarly journal on famed Pittsburgh playwright August Wilson in June, the creators felt it was important that the journal be free for anyone to access.

‘Fences’ finds fresh audience at staged reading

By Matt Maielli / Staff Writer • March 16, 2016

The title of August Wilson’s “Fences” might sound like a dividing play, but Wednesday afternoon it united an auditorium full of people. Visiting anthropology professor Philip Kao’s Intro to Cultural...

“So many parallels with my own journey”

By Photo credit to Josh Lamkin Photography • March 5, 2015

Eugene Lee stands in for August Wilson in "How I Learned."

Wilson’s one-man-show makes its Pittsburgh debut

By Danah Bialoruski / Staff Writer • March 5, 2015

It’s taken 12 years, but August Wilson’s first one-man show, “How I Learned What I Learned,” will finally run in the same city where the story takes place.“How I Learned What I Learned” is...

MLK Project honors August Wilson, strives to ‘break the cycle’

By Shawn Cooke / A&E Editor • August 26, 2014

The vibrant painted leaves on the exterior of the Mad Mex in Oakland demand your full attention, but they don’t reveal the scope of the project that brought them to life.Oakland’s newest mural —...