The Moth is a live storytelling series. Sometimes the stories are true, and sometimes they are factual. Always they are interesting. Here’s a sample. The Moth will be in Pittsburgh in August, and I’m so looking forward to it. American Shorts @WYEP presents The Moth in Pittsburgh Nerves of Steel: Stories of Moxie and Might …
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Stories of Pittsburgh
Pittsburghers: The eyes of the nation are upon us. It’s time to stand up and share what we think of our town and our region. The Primary Pittsburgh Project is a “5-day blogging experiment to invite the Burghosphere to re-tell the primary story story of Pittsburgh to the rest of the country.” Here’s the scoop: …
Let me tell you a story
Photo from City Theatre’s production of Flight, March 2008. Pictured center: Joshua Elijah Reese and DeWanda Wise. Photo credit: John Schisler. In Flight, Charlayne Woodard’s play (recently produced, brilliantly, at City Theatre), the characters are all slaves living on a plantation near Savannah, Georgia in 1858. They are forbidden to learn to read or write, …