august wilson

     

In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored

Trivia about august wilson

  • Lanford Wilson won a Pulitzer for "Talley's Folly" in 1980 & this Wilson won for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990
  • In 1997 this "Fences" playwright debated the state of black theater with critic Robert Brustein
  • (Hi, I'm S. Epatha Merkerson.) I won a Tony nomination for playing Berneice in this playwright's 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Piano Lesson"
  • "May All Your Fences Have Gates" is a book of "Essays on the Drama of" this African-American playwright
  • Pittsburgh's African American Cultural Center was renamed for this "Piano Lesson" author who was born in Pittsburgh
  • This author of "The Piano Lesson" founded the Black Horizons Theatre Company in 1968
  • In this author's "Fences" Troy Maxson complains that black men don't get to drive garbage trucks
  • Many of his plays, including "Joe Turner's Come & Gone", are set in Pittsburgh, where he was born
  • His first major work, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", received a 1985 N.Y. Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play
  • In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson"
  • "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by this playwright first came & went with the Yale Repertory
  • This playwright of "Fences" & "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company
  • "Radio Golf" is the last play in this "Fences" author's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience
  • This playwright with a "monthly" name is the only Af.-Amer, dramatist to have a Broadway theatre named in his honor