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 ...

A sublime example now plays at the Arden Theatre in a sharp, finely tuned production of August Wilson’s King Hedley II, ...

Country music star Orville Peck and two-time Tony Award nominee and GRAMMY Award winner Eva Noblezada will join the Broadway ...

Pittsburgh is where Wilson began his writing career and where most of his plays are set. “That was four in a row,” Bates said, enough to get him known in theater circles as “an August Wilson ...

The Arden Theatre Company continues its current season with August Wilson’s gripping drama, “King Hedley II.” The production, ...

A new exhibition at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center by artist DS Kinsel of BOOM Concepts looks at the ...

“August Wilson: The Writer’s Landscape” opens ... founder and producing artistic director of Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company; Emmai Alaquiva, AWAACC artist in residence; exhibition ...

Philadelphia playwright James Ijames could feel the atmosphere shift as the city’s mood brightened thanks to the Eagles victory. He was preparing for his latest project, directing August Wilson’s King ...

52nd Street. The venue was renamed for owner Virginia M. Binger in 1981. In 2005, the Virginia was renamed the August Wilson Theatre, in honor of the playwright who died later that year.

is explored in “Fences,” the Tony Award and 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by August Wilson, opening at West Springfield’s Majestic Theater on Thursday, Feb. 27. The show runs through ...

The August Wilson Theatre was built in 1925 by the Theatre Guild to house its own productions under the name Guild Theatre. It was extensively renovated in the 1950s and renamed The ANTA.

How many shows has August Wilson written? August Wilson has written 15 shows including Fences (Playwright), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Playwright), Urban Blight (Bookwriter), The Piano Lesson ...