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2 days ago · Extract. August Wilson is the best-known and most performed African-American playwright of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Awarded two Pulitzer Prizes, his drama is centrally concerned with the painful history of blacks in the United States; each of his plays identifies a certain mood or issue of one decade of the twentieth century and illustrates it through the effect it ...
5 days ago · August Wilson: A Life by Patti Hartigan, Simon and Schuster, 544 pages, $32.50. I met playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) at Penumbra, an African-American troupe, in St. Paul in 1979 when I was writing for a Twin Cities weekly paper. Wilson had a day job as a writer at the Minnesota Science Museum.
4 days ago · Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom revived in the public consciousness in 2020 with the release of the Netflix film starring Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman. But a better way to experience August Wilson ...
3 days ago · August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Directed by Gavin Dillon Lawrence, is playing now through September 7, 2024. Learn more at americanplayers.org/play...
4 days ago · At the start of The House That Will Not Stand, Beartrice Albans (Monica Parks), a well-off free woman of colour, is undergoing a personal change in circumstances after the death of Lazare,...
1 day ago · How similar is 2017's Wonder, which stars Julia Roberts, Owen Wilson, and Jacob Tremblay, to R. J. Palacio's book?
5 days ago · August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean is a big, bustling mess, supposed to represent the 1900s in Wilson’s decade-by-decade chronicle of African-American life in the past century.
