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In honor of the news of Wilson's work returning to the Great White Way, we're looking back at all of the big actors who ...
Minneapolis-based playwright TyLie Shider is in Pittsburgh for a monthlong residency to study the August Wilson Archive at ...
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, 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.