Courtney B. Vance made his professional acting and Broadway debut in 1987 in Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “Fences.” ...

In a highly anticipated Broadway revival, Taraji P. Henson and Cedric The Entertainer will take the stage as Bertha and Seth ...

Debbie Allen will direct the revival of the August Wilson play, which is the second in Wilson's American Century Cycle and ...

When August Wilson received word in 2005 that he had inoperable Stage IV cancer, he was not just personally but professionally disconsolate: There was still so much work to do.

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… ...

Review. August Wilson: A Life. By Patti Hartigan Simon & Schuster: 544 pages, $32.50 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support ...

August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned is a heartfelt theatrical memoir that charts the eminent playwright’s self-discovery as an artist.Wilson himself performed it in 2003, just two ...

AUGUST WILSON WAS SETTLING IN to the life of an itinerant playwright. He had been invited back to the O’Neill for the 1983 National Playwrights Conference for a workshop of “Fences,” and ...

American Masters—August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand, airing on PBS Feb. 20, gives an inside look at a private man referred to by many as an outsider. Wilson, the brilliant Pittsburgh ...

August Wilson (1945 – 2005) was an award-winning American playwright whose work illuminated the joys and struggles of the African-American experience in the United States during the 20th century.

The actress will star opposite Cedric the Entertainer in a revival of “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” next spring.