| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 132.2

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Pittsburgh in Stages: Two Hundred Years of Theater. By Lynne Conner. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007. xix, 278 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $32.)
Lynne Conner has carefully culled materials from the Curtis Theatre Collection (University of Pittsburgh), the Archives of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, archived newspapers, and national and local publications to write a social history of Pittsburgh's theatrical activity from 1790 to 1989.	1
Acknowledging roots of earlier theatrical activity at Fort Pitt and sources of more recent developments, Conner provides a well-documented chronology accompanied by 51 black-and-white illustrations. The first illustration, a downtown map locating historic theater structures, is worth bookmarking for reference while navigating the book's eight chapters. Familiarity with Pittsburgh geography and iconography makes reading more fun, but less familiar readers will still find pleasure in anecdotes of a young Andrew Carnegie in the gallery of the Pittsburgh Theater and of appearances of Edwin Forrest, Edwin Booth, James O'Neill, Eleonora Duse, August Wilson, and many other figures of national note.	. . .

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