August Wilson has written 15 shows including Fences ... Two Trains Running (Playwright), Seven Guitars (Playwright), Jitney (Playwright), King Hedley II (Playwright), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ...

Favorite role: Booster in August Wilson’s play “Jitney.” “August Wilson puts the experience of the African-American in perspective — how he deals with living in a society that was not built for him.

“August Wilson: The Writer’s Landscape” opens ... The cycle begins with “Jitney” from 1982 and concludes with “Radio Golf” from 2005. It includes the Pulitzer winners, “Fences ...

A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's ...

for Jitney, Best Direction of a Play (Tony Awards) for August Wilson's Jitney, Outstanding Solo Performance (Drama Desk Awards) for August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned, Distinguished ...

It’s an instrument in two senses: You can play it, but it also carries its own will. The playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) ...

The show opens at The Rep on Wednesday. Late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson’s “Jitney” is next up at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre, running from Aug. 6-18. “August Wilson ...

It’s also a literal ghost story. An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” Generational ties also permeate ...

Playwright August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” comes down to this: A sister and brother, haunted by the violent disruption of their Mississippi childhoods, reunite in 1936 Pittsburgh.

The Washington family, led by Denzel, pledged to bring all of August Wilson's plays to the big screen in a multiyear project — with The Piano Lesson, they continue that mission. It's a true ...

The cycle, which ran from 1982's Jitney to 2005's Radio Golf ... Joe Turner's Come & Gone has one of the earliest settings in ...

The August Wilson Theatre opened in 1925 as the Guild Theatre, designed by Crane & Franzheim and located at 245 W. 52nd Street. The theatre was later renamed the Virginia Theatre, after owner ...