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Whodunit fans can test their detecting skills with season two of Prime Stage Theatre’s Mystery Theatre podcast series.
The first episode of “The Play’s the Thing,” written by Pittsburgh science fiction/mystery author Lawrence C. Connolly, will debut Thursday, with four more following on subsequent Thursdays.
“Lawrence Connolly’s Mystery Theatre podcast really sparks the imagination as ‘you’ try to solve each mystery,” said Wayne Brinda, producing artistic director of Prime Stage, based in the New Hazlett Theater in Pittsburgh’s North Side.
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Sojourner Being cast as a historical figure is one thing, but getting approval from the figure s descendents adds a whole other level. This is what happened when Delana Flowers took on the role of Sojourner Truth for
Sojourner, a new production at Pittsburgh’s Prime Stage Theatre. Set in 1851, the one-woman show, written by Richard LaMonte Pierce, stars Flowers as the abolitionist preparing to give her most famous speech at a women s rights conference in Akron, Ohio. “While I am waiting to go out and speak, a Black journalist comes in and wants to do a short greeting,” says Flowers, a local performer, writer, and teaching assistant. “The play is me talking to this journalist and recalling different things in my life.”
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Prime Stage Theatre will return to its roots with a livestream performance of “Sojourner,” with Delana Flowers portraying the 19th-century women’s suffrage and abolition activist in a Black History Month production.
The theater group’s inaugural production 25 years ago was another play about Sojourner Truth.
”Sojourner” is by Richard LaMonte Pierce, a playwright and published author whose work expounds on the Black and American experience, according to Prime Stage. Pierce is a founding member and playwright in residence at First World Theatre in Philadelphia.