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.” ...

When August Wilson received word in 2005 that he had inoperable Stage IV cancer, he was not just personally but professionally disconsolate: There was still so much work to do.

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… ...

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 ...

August Wilson thought Roosevelt, and his ilk, were wrong, but he also knew that they needed to make their case in the theater, and Meredith takes no prisoners. He writs all large: ...

Wilson is on the verge of finishing off his 100-years project; the last of the 10 plays, "Radio Golf" -- a title inspired by, yes, something Azula suggested -- is to go into production next year.

August Wilson, who chronicled the African-American experience in the 20th century in a series of plays that will stand as a landmark in the history of black culture, of American literature and of ...

Music was vital to playwright August Wilson (1945 --2005), who as a teenager honed his writing at the same time he discovered blues musicians like Bessie. Skip to main content Skip to footer site map.

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

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric “The Entertainer” will star in a new production of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone on ...