Lincoln Center Theater announced today the complete cast and creative team for this fall's August Wilson’s Seven Guitars.

If you want to experience the humanizing effect of August Wilson’s “Fences” and are interested to see Weeden’s acting at work ...

This is James Taylor with Theatre Talk. August Wilson's come and gone. The playwright's death last fall was such a huge blow to contemporary American theater, that it still hasn't completely sunk in.

Derrick Lee Weeden is known for playing legendary characters.

For the fourth consecutive season, Actors’ Shakespeare Project is presenting an August Wilson (1945–2005) play from the late writer’s Pittsburgh Cycle (also referred to as his Century Cycle) – this ...

After her heartbreaking performance as Mamie Till in the critically acclaimed Till, Danielle Deadwyler is soon to be a household name. John David Washington wowed audiences in Christopher Nolan’s ...

On Jan. 7, August Wilson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — a fitting tribute for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is one of the most celebrated and important American ...

A new adaptation of The Piano Lesson updates the playwright’s convictions about how legacies are passed down through generations. In the 2020 documentary Giving Voice, one of Wilson’s longtime ...

Shakespeare & Company will present The Piano Lesson by August Wilson from July 25 through August 24 at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, in partnership with Actors’ Shakespeare Project. This marks the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh playwright August Wilson was posthumously honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday. Denzel Washington, Danielle Deadwyler and the cast and filmmakers ...

THE STORY. THIS PIANO IS AT THE CENTER OF THE STORY. IN AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON. IT’S A FAMILY HEIRLOOM, AND IT IS THE CENTER OF CONFLICT BETWEEN BOY WILLIE AND BERNIE’S BROTHER AND SISTER. I ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson was the 1994 commencement speaker at Morgan State University in Maryland, and one of the graduates in the audience was ...