TY - SER
KW - Whiskey Rebellion
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - French and Indian War
KW - Scots-Irish Americans
KW - railroad industry
KW - Italian Americans
KW - riverboats
KW - Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919)
KW - Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)
KW - Dutch Americans
KW - Welsh Americans
KW - French Americans
KW - immigrants
KW - boarding houses
KW - Irish Americans
KW - Slavic Americans
KW - Slovak Americans
KW - Carnegie Steel Company
KW - Swiss Americans
KW - Hungarian Americans
KW - Croatian Americans
KW - British Americans
KW - Swedish Americans
KW - Marquis de La Fayette (1757-1834)
KW - Pinkerton Detective National Agency
KW - H. C. Frick Coke Company
KW - Jones and Laughlin Steel Company
KW - United Steelworkers
KW - Edwin Stanton (1814-69)
KW - Emma Goldman (1869-1940)
KW - bishops
KW - U. S. Steel Corporation
KW - Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers
KW - Scottish Americans
KW - iron industry
KW - steel industry
KW - nuns
KW - "Pittsburgh Gazette"
KW - Homestead Steel Strike of 1892
KW - Black Americans
KW - steamboats
AU - Gillette Elvgren
AU - Attilio Favorini
AB - A musical docudrama memorializing Pittsburgh history—frontier, industrial, ethnic, and working class—from the 1790s to the American Bicentennial, when the play was first produced. “The play's climax,” says the cover copy, “is the infamous Homestead Strike of 1892, when Pinkerton agents hired by Frick clashed with workers at the Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel Company on the banks of the Monongahela River.”
C1 - 1794-1899
C3 - Allegheny County; Allegheny River; Monongahela River; Ohio River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Market Square; Uptown; South Side; N. Braddock; Braddock’s Field; Edgar Thomson Steel Works; Braddock; Carnegie Library of Braddock; Homestead; McKees Rocks; McKeespor
C4 - Historical; Labor; Immigrant
CY - Pittsburgh
LA - English
M3 - Playscript
N1 - This work is catalogued as 1976, when the play premiered, although the playscript was not published until 1992.<br/>

Uptown is referred to as Soho, as it was then known.

The play opened at the University of Pittsburgh Theater on March 11, 1976.
N2 - A musical docudrama memorializing Pittsburgh history—frontier, industrial, ethnic, and working class—from the 1790s to the American Bicentennial, when the play was first produced. “The play's climax,” says the cover copy, “is the infamous Homestead Strike of 1892, when Pinkerton agents hired by Frick clashed with workers at the Homestead plant of the Carnegie Steel Company on the banks of the Monongahela River.”
PB - University of Pittsburgh Press
PP - Pittsburgh
PY - 1976
RN - Gillette Elvgren (1943— ) was professor of theatre arts at the University of Pittsburgh for many years and now is at the Department of Cinema-Television at Regent University. He lives in Chesapeake, Virginia. Attilio “Buck” Favorini (1943—2022) held a Ph.D. in the History of the Theatre from Yale. He was the founding chair of Pitt's Department of Theatre Arts and founder of the Three Rivers Shakespeare Festival. He lived in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood.
EP - 113 p.
TI - Steel/City: A Docudrama in Three Acts
ER -