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 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 ...

Wilson’s vision conjoined hoodoo and history in completely singular ways. Against the odds, he arrived at the apex of American theater. Frederick August Kittel Jr., Wilson’s given name ...

By David Rooney Chief Film Critic One of the most symphonic works of August Wilson’s ten-play cycle ... to its 1987 premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre, where he played Doaker’s impulsive ...

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?

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 ...

INSIDE ARENA, PLAYERS LIES THE START OF A JOURNEY THAT COMBINES THEATER AND HISTORY. AUGUST WILSON’S GEM OF THE OCEAN PERFORMED ON STAGE FOR ALL TO SEE AND LEARN. IT COVERS THE DIASPORA IT ...

Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati (ETC) kicks off the new year with the regional premiere drama August Wilson's How I Learned What I Learned, co-conceived by Todd Kreidler. Following his rise from a ...

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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 ...