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Two Trains Running by August Wilson

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Author Biography

Name: August Wilson
Variant Name: Frederick August Kittell
Birth Date: 1945
Nationality: American
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: Male
Occupations: playwright

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Biography of August Wilson
9340 words, approx. 31.1 pages
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 several Tonys in a long list of prestigious awards, gran...
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Biography of August Wilson
1742 words, approx. 5.8 pages
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 impacted African Americans in each decade of the 20th centur...


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Two Trains Running Information
1,176 words, approx. 4 pages
Two Trains Running is a play by August Wilson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright. The play takes place in an African American neighborhood known as the Hill District in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1969. It explores the social and...


News and Journals
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Portland Press Herald (Maine)
Train Almost Runs Into Two Snowmobiles
02/02/2002: 631 words, approx. 2 pages
00-00-0000 The Downeaster comes to an emergency stop in Saco in yet another near- collision. Portland Press Herald (Maine) Saturday, February 2, 2002 Edition: Final Section: FRONT Page: 1A By TOM BELL Staff Writer A Downeaster passenger train screeched to an...
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The Village Voice
Two Trains Running/The Voysey Inheritance
12/13/2006: 1,293 words, approx. 4 pages
Two Trains Running By August Wilson Signature Theatre 555 West 42nd Street 212-244-7529 The Voysey Inheritance By David Mamet, adapted from the play by Harley Gran ville Barker Atlantic Theater 336 West 20th Street 212-239-6200...
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The New York Observer
The Heart of the Matter: Wilson Versus the Rest
1/21/2007: 1,154 words, approx. 4 pages
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 needs emotion—plain, simple, direct emotion. It isn’t just Wilson’s widely admired musicality...
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AP News
Actor Roscoe Lee Browne dies in LA at 81
4/12/2007: 521 words, approx. 2 pages
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 a long battle with cancer, said Alan Nierob, a spokesman for the family.Browne's...
 


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Critical Review by Frank Rich
1,213 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review, Rich offers a largely favorable assessment of Two Trains Running.


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