August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences has finally made it to the big screen, directed by Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington. Wilson’s masterful storytelling about a ...

August Wilson, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a Tony Award, is widely regarded as one of the finest playwrights ever to write for the American stage. His American Century Cycle, which traces the ...

Tickets: Wheeler Opera House box office; http://www.aspenshowtix.com Six years after playing Bono in the Tony-winning Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer ...

It’s always a pleasure to watch a theater company and its acting company grow, and audiences have a wonderful opportunity to see it happening with the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s thoroughly ...

I shouldn’t have to explain why Fences, the August Wilson play set in the 1950s and now adapted for the screen, is important. If you’ve stepped anywhere near the theater — and I mean the playhouse ...

It was a glorious Sunday night in August to see August Wilson’s words performed outdoors. In this case, the play was the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fences,” the first of three of Wilson’s works being ...

ALBANY, Ga. (WALB) - On October 2, 2005, profoundly impactful playwright, August Wilson, died. August Wilson is the man responsible for hit movies like “Fences,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — People regularly visit Pittsburgh’s Hill District seeking the birthplace of August Wilson. “That happens every day,” Hill District resident Mark Southers, founder of Pittsburgh ...

An American classic and moving family drama, Fences, is the story of Troy Maxson, a father struggling with the bitterness of the past while supporting his wife and children in 1950s Pittsburgh. This ...

I shouldn’t have to explain why Fences, the August Wilson play set in the 1950s and now adapted for the screen, is important. If you’ve stepped anywhere near the theater — and I mean the playhouse ...