It wasn’t easy for Frederick August Kittel Jr., a high school dropout from Pittsburgh’s Hill District, to transform himself into August Wilson, the venerable playwright whose 10-play cycle examining ...

Update: Due to illness, Patti Hartigan’s Aug. 24 virtual talk at the Mark Twain House & Museum has been postponed. The new date has yet to be determined. Connecticut played a major role in the success ...

Playwright August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" was at the Goodman Theatre in 2003. Wilson is the subject of a new biography, "August Wilson: A Life," by Patti Hartigan. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago ...

New Dominion Bookshop will host a book reading and signing with author Patti Hartigan on Sunday at 2 p.m. Hartigan will be reading from her new book, August Wilson: A Life, which was released from ...

Audiences at the Glen Hazel Recreation Center in Pittsburgh could hardly have known, as they watched the sole performance of a modest two-character play called “Recycle” one summer night in 1973, that ...

After she saw the late August Wilson’s theatrical memoir “How I Learned What I Learned” in a production at the Huntington Theatre Company in 2016, the idea to write a book about Wilson’s life took ...

August Wilson (1945–2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of ten plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh ...

Opening night, 1986. August Wilson’s play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Patti Hartigan, a rising young critic and arts writer, took her seat for the pre-Broadway ...

This summer, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will be pulling out all the stops to celebrate the late legendary Pittsburgh-born playwright August Wilson. With their August Wilson’s American ...