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Lillian Selonick

Posted inHyde Park, Stage & Screen

Home Sweet Pittsburgh

by Lillian Selonick January 21, 2014January 22, 2014

August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars,” now playing at Court Theatre, takes place during a crucial moment for the blues. The year is 1948, and Big Bill Broonzy and Tampa Red have been holding down the Chicago blues scene since the 1920s. Alan Lomax first recorded Muddy Waters in Stovall, Mississippi just seven years before. Waters’s hit […]

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