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

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

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

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer have been tapped to star in the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s ...

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