The Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven has announced its three-show 2025-26 season. One of the plays is a co-production with TheaterWorks Hartford, which announced its part last month, another is of the ...

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 ...

August Wilson’s “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” is part two of the playwright’s monumental American Century Cycle, the 10-play saga that depicts the Black experience, decade by decade, in the United ...

Derrick Lee Weeden is known for playing legendary characters.

Actor Derrick Lee Weeden rehearses his role starring as Troy Maxson in Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s staging of “Fences” by August Wilson. The play, which opened Tuesday and runs through Aug. 28, is the ...

"Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is part of August Wilson's legendary 10 play series "The Century Cycle." Wilson got his start as a company member at Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul. NINA MOINI: August ...

Directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, August Wilson’s SEVEN GUITARS comes to Lincoln Center Theater in a powerful new revival of one of Wilson’s most lyrical and intimate plays. Set in 1940s Pittsburgh, ...

CELEBRATION. OUR BRIANNA ROSS TAKES US BEHIND THE SCENES. FENCES IS THE SIXTH PLAY IN THE BALTIMORE AUGUST WILSON CELEBRATION, AND THE CAST HERE AT CHESAPEAKE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY SAY IT’S THE PERFECT ...

August Wilson’s celebrated play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone” is on Broadway right now. But for many theater insiders, the production with the highest stakes is unfolding 1,000 miles away at St. Paul’s ...

What the late August Wilson always wanted us to understand is that emancipation is not the same as freedom. That’s a truth experienced firsthand by the characters in Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean,’’ ...