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‘August Wilson: A Life’: A theater giant’s symphony of 20th century Black lives, captured by...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 9 months agoOpening night, 1986. August Wilson’s play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Huntington Theatre Company...
GableStage’s August Wilson solo show details how a writer found his voice
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 8 months agoFew people – maybe least of all the late and indisputably great August Wilson – could have foreseen...
America's Shakespeare: Playing playwright August Wilson in Texas
Austin American-Statesman via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA reasonable argument can be made that August Wilson is America's Shakespeare. The breadth, vision, poetry and humanity of his 10 major plays, "The American Century Cycle," also known as "The ...
Playwright August Wilson was ahead of his time. But would he have made it today?
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoAugust Wilson, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled the Black experience in...
Pulitzer winner 'Fences' gets a new take at Trinity Rep. See how this version stands out.
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 2 months agoEven when a play is beautifully written, theater leaves room for adaptation, which is what Trinity...
'The Piano Lesson,' August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize play, celebrates decade of Pyramid Theater
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA decade ago, a small group of Des Moines performers put together a reading of August Wilson's...
Samuel L. Jackson and John David Washington to Star in August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ at Netflix
The Wrap via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAugust Wilson’s classic play “The Piano Lesson” will be getting another feature film adaptation,...
Broadway, in 2022, is 'colorblind.' Would August Wilson approve?
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 2 years agoStrange — the fall theater season in New York kicking off with August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson"...
Charming Detroit ensemble stages strong production of August Wilson play
Gannett via AOL· 3 months agoHave you found your people? Your path? Your purpose? Have you found the song in the universe that...
'Pieces of My Heart' debuts in Des Moines using unpublished poems from playwright August Wilson
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPlaywright August Wilson once said that he could write forever about the Black experience in...