Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming week. Writer/producer/director Rick Sebak’s latest installment in WQED-TV’s “Pittsburgh History Series” revisits a 32-year-old interview with the late Pittsburgh native and playwright August Wilson. Premiering at 8 p.m. Thursday on WQED, “Brain Space & Energy: My
James D. Stern on His August Wilson Doc Giving Voice : Things Really Come Full Circle
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The co-director of the Netflix doc about both an August Wilson monologue competition and the late playwright himself speaks to The Hollywood Reporter. The thing about making a documentary is you ve gotta be lucky, and anybody who doesn t tell you that is not telling you the whole truth, says
James D. Stern, the co-director, with
Fernando Villena, of the Netflix documentary feature
Giving Voice.
The luckiest aspects of this film, which intersperses footage of six young contestants in an
44th Black Heritage Stamp, Honoring Legendary Playwright August Wilson, Now Available
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ The U.S. Postal Service issued the August Wilson Black Heritage stamp today. This Forever stamp was dedicated during a virtual ceremony and is now being sold at Post Office locations nationwide and online at
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The August Wilson stamp is being issued as a Forever stamp in panes of 20. The Postal Service is honored to issue the August Wilson Forever stamp, said dedicating official Joshua Colin, vice president, Delivery Operations, U.S. Postal Service. Wilson is hailed as a trailblazer who brought fresh perspectives and previously unheard voices to the stage.