By SHARON EBERSON Even as hell breaks loose in the Mamet masterwork American Buffalo, it is funny as hell, and full of heart. How perfect, then, that Patrick Jordan’s barebones productions ends its 20th year with this actor’s actor piece,… Read More ›
By SHARON EBERSON To be Hamlet is to be a student prince bound to seek revenge for his father’s death, and to be indecisive in the task. Anything else is as you like it. More to the point, to borrow a… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company continues its 20th anniversary season with its second premiere in a row. Next up at the newly anointed Madison Arts Center in the Hill District is Pyramid Builders, a work by Karuna Das – sanskrit for… Read More ›
By Bob Hoover After The Piano Lesson, the 1986 play that earned August Wilson his second Pulitzer Prize, he was ready to move on to the next chapter in his Pittsburgh cycle. The inspiration would be this line: “Then I… Read More ›
By Sharon Eberson Justin Emeka had the determination to do things his way, along with the insight to seek advice from a giant of American theater. So it was natural that the fledgling director would seize every opportunity to speak… Read More ›