Pittsburgh Public Theater has launched Public On Demand for its recent production of The Coffin Maker, a world premiere play by Mark Clayton Southers. Public On Demand provides “cinema-quality digital versions” of mainstage productions on an exclusive streaming platform. Visit… Read More ›
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Pittsburgh Playwrights and New Horizon Companies Slated for 2024 International Black Theatre Festival
Two productions that originated on Pittsburgh stages in the past year are headed to the International Black Theatre Festival this summer. Headed to Winston-Salem, N.C., for the 18th biennial festival are Mark Clayton Southers‘ The Bluegrass Mile, which debuted at his Pittsburgh… Read More ›
Review: ‘The Coffin Maker’ Turns the Tables on Injustice in Searing Debut
The Powerful Premiere Concludes Pittsburgh Public Theater’s 2023-24 Season on a High Note By SHARON EBERSON The Coffin Maker, a riveting, provocative world-premiere work from Mark Clayton Southers, manifests what Judgement Day justice and retribution may look like, as seen… Read More ›
Double Take: Monteze Freeland Directs Pittsburgh Public’s ‘The Coffin Maker,’ While His Own Play Debuts a Few Miles Away
By SHARON EBERSON In theatrical leadership, influence and inspiration, few can match the output and goodwill spread throughout Pittsburgh by Mark Clayton Southers and Monteze Freeland. This coming weekend alone proves the point. Freeland will direct the premiere production of… Read More ›
National August Wilson New Voices Competition Crowns Winners in Pittsburgh
By SHARON EBERSON The spirit of August Wilson permeated the O’Reilly Theater Monday night, as the monologue and design competition that bears his name came home to Pittsburgh for the first time. The August Wilson New Voices Competition – formerly… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Public Theater Sets Cast for Mark Clayton Southers’ ‘The Coffin Maker’
Pittsburgh Public Theater has announced the cast and creative team for the premiere production of The Coffin Marker, the newest addition to Mark Clayton Southers’ cycle of plays set in the 19th century, directed by Monteze Freeland. The cast features… Read More ›
Pittsburgh Playwrights Tees Up 2024 with ‘Dinah,’ August Wilson’s ‘Radio Golf’ and More
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company settles into its Madison Arts Center home this year, starting in April with the biomusical Dinah and the return to the August Wilson House backyard stage, with Radio Golf. The season, with no specific dates at… Read More ›
The Best of Pittsburgh Theater 2023
By SHARON EBERSON So much Pittsburgh theater, so little time is among my top picks for the subtitle of my theater-going life. A good overall title might be: “There’s No Business Like Covering Show Business.” Combine those two, and you… Read More ›
Review: Premiere of Mark Clayton Southers’ ‘The Bluegrass Mile’ at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Educates and Entertains
This drama about Black horse jockeys in the late 1800s is the latest installment in Southers’ 19th Century Collection of plays. By MAC HOOVER There is a line in the play The Bluegrass Mile written by Mark Clayton Southers that is haunting this writer…. Read More ›
Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Caps off its Bustling 20th Season with the World Premiere of ‘The Bluegrass Mile’
The play is one of the final installments of Mark Clayton Southers’ 19th-century play cycle. By JAMES PAUL* (This story has been updated by the writer.) Mark Clayton Southers, the founder and Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company, embarked on… Read More ›
