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Derrick Lee Weeden is known for playing legendary characters.

He's the protagonist — you can't quite say "hero," unless you add "tragic" in front — of August Wilson's play Fences. James Earl Jones, who... Troy Maxson: Heart, Heartbreak as Big as the World Troy ...

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 ...

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A symphony of drama in several movements, August Wilson’s Fences (★★★★☆) rises, falls, and rises mellifluously. In Timothy Douglas’ astute new production at Ford’s Theatre, Wilson’s Pulitzer ...

PULITZER PRIZE and Tony Award winning playwright AUGUST WILSON died this month, succumbing to liver cancer at the age of 60. Sportswriter DAVE ZIRIN looks at perhaps Wilson's most well-known play, ...

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