August wilson

AUGUST WILSON. Was an American playwright. Called the "theater's poet of black America", he is best known for a series of ten plays collectively called The Century Cycle, which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community in the 20th century.

Wilson wrote 10 plays, collectively known as "The Pittsburgh Cycle" or "Amerian Century Cycle," which explores 100 years of the African American experience.

John Lahr on the playwright who wrote “Fences,” “The Piano Lesson,” and more.

Read 512 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the bl…

PBS – with a slew of Hollywood talents – pays tribute to August Wilson.

Our critics talk about the power of language and representation from the playwright, a great chronicler of the 20th century.

A look at innovative African American playwright, August Wilson, his cycle of 10 plays, and his critically-acclaimed family drama, Fences.

Read 169 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. “No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieve…

August Wilson was a playwright who penned an acclaimed cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th century, about Black American life. He won Pulitzer Prizes for two of them: Fences and The Piano Lesson. Learn more about Wilson’s life and works in this article.

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