In a highly anticipated Broadway revival, Taraji P. Henson and Cedric The Entertainer will take the stage as Bertha and Seth ...

Debbie Allen will direct the revival of the August Wilson play, which is the second in Wilson's American Century Cycle and ...

Courtney B. Vance made his professional acting and Broadway debut in 1987 in Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Fences.” ...

Review. August Wilson: A Life. By Patti Hartigan Simon & Schuster: 544 pages, $32.50 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support ...

Opening night, 1986. August Wilson’s play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Patti Hartigan, a rising young critic and arts writer, took her… ...

August Wilson, born in 1945 and raised in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, is best known for his 10-play cycle evoking 20th-century Black life, set almost entirely in that city.

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Renowned playwright August Wilson is one of Pittsburgh's most famous sons. His childhood home in the Hill District has been restored as an arts center. Many more connections to ...

Playwright August Wilson named the cultural matriarch in “Gem of the Ocean” Aunt Ester (and she will appear in three more of his plays).

HOLMES WARD. THE NEWLY RENOVATED HUNTINGTON THEATRE REOPENS WITH AUGUST WILSON’S MASTERPIECE JOE TURNER’S COME AND GONE. THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE WAS ORIGINALLY BUILT IN 1925 AS AMERICA’S ...

August Wilson, the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who chronicled the Black experience in America, gets a stirring biography from Patti Hartigan.

The actress will star opposite Cedric the Entertainer in a revival of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” next spring.