How Billy Porter's journey led to 'Pose' and 'What If,' his directorial debut in Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The coming weeks will see the culmination of a journey Billy Porter began in 1994. Back then, the 51-year-old Pittsburgh native was living in New York City and playing Teen Angel in the Broadway revival of “Grease” “with 14 inches of orange rubber hair on my head stomping around like a Little Richard automaton on crack,” he said in a phone interview Thursday.