It wasn’t easy for Frederick August Kittel Jr., a high school dropout from Pittsburgh’s Hill District, to transform himself into August Wilson, the venerable playwright whose 10-play cycle examining ...
In this excerpt from “August Wilson: A Life,” the playwright, on the cusp of stardom, is polishing off his latest play, “Fences,” at the O’Neill writers’ conference. August Wilson in 2005. He once ...
Audiences at the Glen Hazel Recreation Center in Pittsburgh could hardly have known, as they watched the sole performance of a modest two-character play called “Recycle” one summer night in 1973, that ...
He was a man made of words. And with his words dipped in the lyric pools of blues and jazz, he remade how the world sees Black people. Playwright August Wilson created dramas such as "Ma Rainey's ...
In 1918–19 in Zurich, Switzerland, English painter Frank Budgen found himself often drinking wine while enjoying long talks ...
After she saw the late August Wilson’s theatrical memoir “How I Learned What I Learned” in a production at the Huntington Theatre Company in 2016, the idea to write a book about Wilson’s life took ...
Playwright August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" was at the Goodman Theatre in 2003. Wilson is the subject of a new biography, "August Wilson: A Life," by Patti Hartigan. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago ...
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