Christopher Rawson
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Christopher Rawson (born Christopher Comstock Hart, birthdate unknown) is an American writer.
Rawson was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His biological father was noted stage actor Richard Hart. His parents divorced shortly after he was born, and he was adopted by his stepfather, Jonathan Rawson. [1]
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Rawson's main discipline is as a theater critic; he is currently theater critic and theater editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, where he first began reviewing in 1983.
Rawson is active in several theater organizations: he is on the editorial board of "Best Plays," the standard theater yearbook established in 1920 by Burns Mantle; he is a trustee of the American Theatre Hall of Fame, for which he helps supervise the annual balloting that leads to the selection of new inductees; and he has long been active in the American Theatre Critics Association, which he has twice served as chair (1991-93 and 2007- ) and for which he organized conferences in London and at Canada's Shaw and Stratford Festivals.
Since 1968, he has been a member of the English faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has taught courses primarily in satire, Shakespeare, critical writing, Irish drama and August Wilson. His B.A. is from Harvard and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Washington (Seattle). In 1999, he wrote "Where Stone Walls Meet the Sea," a centennial history of the Donald Ross-designed Sakonnet Golf Club and of the summer colony of which it is a part. He is currently working on a book, "August Wilson's Pittsburgh," which is expected to be published in 2008 by the University of Pittsburgh Press.
