Directing ‘King Hedley II’ at the Arden Theatre this month, the Pulitzer winner reflects on the playwright’s enduring ...

The story of August Wilson is one of unlikely and impressive success. He grew up poor, born to a black mother and white ...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama explores life of former Negro League baseball player Troy Maxson and his family in 1950s ...

By Jarice Hanson For the Valley Advocate If we’ve learned anything since the Inauguration of the current President, it’s that ...

Every February, Detroit commemorates the life and legacy of the renowned hip-hop producer J Dilla with a weekend full of ...

Here’s a look at six shows onstage in Central Florida this March: Original thrillers, homegrown hits and a Rodgers & ...

How many shows has August Wilson written? August Wilson has written 15 shows including Fences (Playwright), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Playwright), Urban Blight (Bookwriter), The Piano Lesson ...

From the author of “The Piano Lesson” and “Fences” comes the story of Memphis Lee, a diner owner in a historically black neighborhood in Pittsburgh at the height of the civil rights movement of the ...

Arden Theatre Company has announced the extension of August Wilson's gripping drama King Hedley II. Directed by Pulitzer Prize-winner James Ijames, King Hedley II, set in 1985, takes audiences ...

Omar Wilson has been convicted of the murder of Mussie Imnetu outside a restaurant near the Notting Hill Carnival last August ...

Many in the theater community revere August Wilson, one of the most acclaimed playwrights of the last 50 years. Lundeana Thomas, who is directing Wilson’s “Gem of the Ocean” at Youngstown ...