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

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

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

Minneapolis-based playwright TyLie Shider is in Pittsburgh for a monthlong residency to study the August Wilson Archive at ...

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, born in 1945 and raised in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, is best known for his 10-play cycle evoking 20th-century Black life, set almost entirely in that city.

The play will be directed by Emmy and Golden Globe winner Debbie Allen, who’s also a two-time Tony nominee for her work in ...

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… ...

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

ABC/Troy HarveyNearly 30 years into her acting career Taraji P. Henson is set to make her Broadway debut. She'll be starring ...