Our series Full Bio returns, and this month we are focusing on the life of pioneering playwright August Wilson, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice, and whose plays focus on the life of Black ...
Our series Full Bio returns, and this month we are focusing on the life of pioneering playwright August Wilson, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice, and whose plays focus on the life of Black ...
He was a man made of words. And with his words dipped in the lyric pools of blues and jazz, he remade how the world sees Black people. Playwright August Wilson created dramas such as "Ma Rainey's ...
Audiences at the Glen Hazel Recreation Center in Pittsburgh could hardly have known, as they watched the sole performance of a modest two-character play called “Recycle” one summer night in 1973, that ...
In this excerpt from “August Wilson: A Life,” the playwright, on the cusp of stardom, is polishing off his latest play, “Fences,” at the O’Neill writers’ conference. August Wilson in 2005. He once ...
Update: Due to illness, Patti Hartigan’s Aug. 24 virtual talk at the Mark Twain House & Museum has been postponed. The new date has yet to be determined. Connecticut played a major role in the success ...
After she saw the late August Wilson’s theatrical memoir “How I Learned What I Learned” in a production at the Huntington Theatre Company in 2016, the idea to write a book about Wilson’s life took ...
Playwright August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" was at the Goodman Theatre in 2003. Wilson is the subject of a new biography, "August Wilson: A Life," by Patti Hartigan. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago ...
An August Wilson classic wouldn’t exist without a Romare Bearden masterpiece. Here’s how the two are intertwined. By Maya Phillips What 23 very American things tell us about our country. By Michael ...
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