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2) Jitney
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Presents a play that depicts gypsy cab drivers who serve the African American community in Pittsburgh.
5) Radio golf
Author
Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1997 in a storefront redevelopment office in Pittsburgh's Hill District, Radio golf is the concluding play in August Wilson's monumental ten-play cycle chronicling African American life during the twentieth century"--Back cover.
7) Fences
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
Follows the life and death of Troy, an man in his fifties employed as a garbage collector, and the the alienation of his family as a result of his decisions.
Author
Series
Publisher
Samuel French
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fast-paced and funny play about the world today and in the future. Set in Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, it's the story of a successful entrepreneur who aspires to become the city's first black mayor. But when the past begins to catch up with him, secrets get revealed that could be his undoing.
10) Fences: a play
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Language
English
Description
During the 1950's Troy Maxson struggles against racism and tries to preserve his feelings of pride in himself.
Legendary playwright August Wilson's powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But a new spirit of liberation is...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Living in a rundown Pittsburgh neighborhood, four lifelong friends scraping by in low-paying, dead-end jobs come up with a plan to get rich. Inexperienced as they are, the guys soon find themselves running a full-scale prostitution operation ... very successfully. Propelled into the kinds of money and lifestyle one could only imagine, they're about to learn where the road leads when you're in way over your head.
12) Pittsburgh
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a song-and-dance disaster in this real-life "mockumentary."...
13) Flashdance
Language
English
Description
Alex Owens is a fiercely determined and beautiful 18 year old woman who works as a welder by day and as a dancer at a local bar at night. Alex struggles to gain independence, finds love, and realize her dream--to dance at the Pittsburgh Conservatory of Dance.
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"Pittsburgh corporate lawyer Nick Fallin's high life has gotten the best of him. Arrested for drug use, he is sentenced to 1,500 hours of community service. He must now squeeze those hours into his 24/7 cutthroat world of mergers, acquisitions, and board meetings. Reluctantly, he is now a part-time child advocate at Legal Aid Services, where one case after another is an eye-opening instance of kids caught up in difficult circumstances. As the show...
