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 ...

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 seat for the ...

The playwright August Wilson, who died in 2005 ... first staged and what makes them still so relevant today even as the theater finally welcomes the voices of more Black playwrights?

In April of 2005, the play “Radio Golf” made its world premiere on the Yale Repstage. Two months later, the author – Pulitzer ...

It’s been 35 years since there was a production of August Wilson’s “Two Trains Running” at one of Connecticut’s major regional theaters, the last time being the play’s world premiere ...

Playing February 17 – March 10, 2024. Directed by Torie Wiggins. From Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson comes a one-man show that chronicles his life as a Black artist in ...

August Wilson was a national treasure ... whose upbeat conclusions may surprise unaccustomed viewers. Marin Theatre Company deserves accolades for choosing this important play to close out ...

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Playhouse on Park is the latest Connecticut theater to build “Fences.” August Wilson’s masterwork, which sits at the center of his famed “Century Cycle” of dramas about Black American ...

Currently, Kelly serves as a professor in the University of Wisconsin Theatre and Drama Department and is directing and acting in August Wilson’s Fences. Kelly has an unusual story for how he ended up ...