QUEEN ETTA: Legendary jazz singer plays one in 'King Hedley II'

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Etta Cox knows her way around a song. So does Ruby, a character in “King Hedley II,” the next-to-last play in August Wilson’s Pittsburgh cycle.

Ms. Cox plays Ruby in the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company production of the play, which opens Friday at Mr. Wilson’s birthplace in the Hill District. But she feels no kinship with a former big band singer in her 60s who has quit singing.