Jerome Preston Bates, known for his Broadway performance in August Wilson's "Seven Guitars," has also showcased his talent in regional productions such as "Jitney," and has an extensive resume in ...

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 ...

Pulitzer Prize playwright August Wilson’s remains are in Greenwood ... which included “Fences,” “The Piano Lesson,” “Jitney” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” ...

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

The Piano Lesson” — 3 stars An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August ...

An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm ...

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

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. ^ The second Pittsburgh-set ...

It didn’t take long for Denzel Washington to realize they didn’t need him. The Oscar winner has made it his mission to bring the works of August Wilson, the great American playwright whose ...

In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with “Mudbound” screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson’s text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved ...

The playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) made it his life’s work to create a cycle of plays in which black Americans weigh the sufferings of the past against the need to shed its burdens in ...