Pittsburgh playwrights Wali Jamal Abdullah and Kim El both approached August Wilson at different times seeking an answer to a ...

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… ...

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 ...

The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, whose alumni include August Wilson, Jeremy O. Harris and Wendy Wasserstein, has given ...

Playwright August Wilson. (Courtesy The Huntington Theatre Company) In 1986, the Huntington Theatre Company produced August Wilson’s groundbreaking play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” ...

Wilson began working on many of these, but the only one he finished before he died from liver cancer at age 60 in 2005 was his one-man autobiographical show, “How I Learned What I Learned.” ...

The newly named August Wilson Theatre was built in 1925 and has gone through several names since then. It opened 80 years ago as the Guild Theatre with a production of George Bernard Shaw’s ...

For an hour Monday night, in the Goodman Theatre’s Albert Theatre, high school students performed monologues from August Wilson’s 10-play Century Cycle. The only sounds made were thunde… ...

Of all the honors bestowed on award-winning playwright August Wilson, having a Broadway theater renamed for him was one of the most treasured. And for all who admired and knew Wilson (he resided ...

Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu’s Pass Over closes October 10 after beginning previews August 4 and opening August 22 at the August Wilson Theatre.It was just the second show to hold performances on ...

THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY presents August Wilson's 'How I Learned What I Learned,' a powerful one-man show about the life of the acclaimed playwright. Don't miss this heartfelt portrayal of a ...