Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright August Wilson (Frederick August Kittell; born 1945) embarked upon a mission to write a cycle of ten plays addressing central issues that have impact...
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August Wilson is one of the leading American playwrights of the late twentieth century. He has been phenomenally successful, having won two Pulitzers, five New York Drama Critics Circle awards, and se...
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In the following interview, Wilson discusses various aspects of his works, including themes, symbols, and characters.
August Wilson's play Ma Rainey's Black Bottom garnered rave revie...
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In the following essay, DeVries examines the recurring themes in Wilson's cycle of plays regarding the black experience. She identifies the most pervasive theme as "the need for black Am...
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In the essay below, Glover examines the role of blues music in Wilson's plays.
A black man walks into a bar. The words "for whites only" do not hang over the neon sign in the w...
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In the following essay, Shannon examines Wilson's treatment of Christianity in his plays.
The center of African American playwright August Wilson's growing theatrical universe is cons...
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In the following essay, Wilde studies how Wilson gives expression to the memories of African Americans in Two Trains Running.
"All I do is try to live in the world but the world done gone cr...
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In the following essay, Saunders overviews Wilson's life and career in order to illuminate the playwright's use of ambiguȯus and often paradoxical characters, details, and themes ...
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In the following essay, Shafer analyzes Wilson's life and his techniques as a playwright, and chronicles the stage productions of his plays.
August Wilson is one of only seven American playw...
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Troy's decisions within this play are influenced by many factors that create his behavior. Fences was written by August Wilson in 1986. It portrays the story of a man that has been scarred by the pr...
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When it opened on Broadway six years ago, I wrote of August Wilson’s King Hedley II that it was a mighty and messy and frightening achievement. Its power resides in ecstatic visions and parab...
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August Wilson’s extraordinary first play, Jitney (1982), born in the chains of slavery and the necessity of memory, was a tragedy of small and profound lives lived out in good humor and morta...
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Seeing again August Wilson’s compelling Two Trains Running (directed by Lou Bellamy, now in the last two weeks of its extended run at the Signature), I was struck by how badly our theater nee...
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"LoveMusik," a look at the relationship between composer Kurt Weill and actress Lotte Lenya, received 12 Drama Desk nominations Thursday, honoring the best of the 2006-2007 New York theater season....
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The best productions, on or off-Broadway, in 2007:_ "August: Osage County." Tracy Letts' Broadway debut is a big, juicy melodrama filled with family fights and funny business, not to mention the be...
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Canadian-born American theatre director (b. June 29, 1919,
Toronto
, Ont.—d. June 29, 2006,
New York, N.Y.
), exerted a powerful influence on American theatre for four decades as director o...
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after...
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after...
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Of all the works in August Wilson's 10-play cycle depicting the black experience in 20th century America, "King Hedley II" is the most operatic _ passionate, expansive, tragic and filled with big s...
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Actor Roscoe Lee Browne, whose rich voice and dignified bearing brought him an Emmy Award and a Tony nomination, has died. He was 81.Browne died early Wednesday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Lo...
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August Wilson
August Wilson
Interview by August Wilson with Kim Powers
A Father's Misguided Protectionism in "Fences"
King Hedley II Returns, Majestically, Proclaiming August Wilson\'d5s Greatness
