Playwright August Wilson, pictured at Yale University in 2005, is the subject of a sweeping new unauthorized biography. (Michelle McLoughlin / Associated Press) No dramatist survives the journey from ...

Theater-goers have a chance to make a visible investment in the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Downtown ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Pittsburgh playwright August Wilson was posthumously honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday. Denzel Washington, Danielle Deadwyler and the cast and filmmakers ...

All human beings are shaped by the times, locations and circumstances in which they were raised. For the late playwright August Wilson, described as one of America's most influential playwrights and ...

Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, who died in 2005, is one of the prides of Pittsburgh - yet until this week, there has been no site in his hometown where fans could go ...

Opening night, 1986. August Wilson’s play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Patti Hartigan, a rising young critic and arts writer, took her seat for the pre-Broadway ...

When playwright August Wilson was born in 1945, his family lived in a two-room apartment on the second floor of a red-brick building on Bedford Avenue in the Hill District. While the sidewalk in front ...

LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs her husband, starring opposite Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson’s drama about African Americans wrestling with the painful past. By David Rooney ...