Continuing Denzel Washington‘s stated quest to bring new film versions of iconic playwright August Wilson‘s 10-play Century Cycle (aka Pittsburgh Cycle since nearly all take place in the writer’s ...

A new adaptation of The Piano Lesson updates the playwright’s convictions about how legacies are passed down through generations. In the 2020 documentary Giving Voice, one of Wilson’s longtime ...

Henson will star opposite Cedric the Entertainer in 'Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,' directed by Debbie Allen. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer Taraji P. Henson and Cedric the Entertainer will star in a ...

On Jan. 7, August Wilson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — a fitting tribute for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is one of the most celebrated and important American ...

The filmmaker, the son of Pauletta and Denzel Washington, makes his feature directorial debut on the August Wilson adaptation for Netflix. By Mia Galuppo Senior Entertainment Reporter In 2020, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story of August Wilson is one of unlikely and impressive success. He grew up poor, born to a black mother and white father, in ...

Omar Robinson is nothing short of sensational in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s staging of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” at Hibernian Hall — an outstanding production that reminds us, once again, ...

The piano in “The Piano Lesson” is a thing of pride and sorrow. It’s a family heirloom, a work of art, and a symbol of black achievement, but it’s also a document of families enslaved and ripped apart ...

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 ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson was the 1994 commencement speaker at Morgan State University in Maryland, and one of the graduates in the audience was ...

The Middletown Arts Center will present a special Black History Month production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running, produced by Darrell Lawrence Willis, Sr. and directed by Mark Antonio Henderson, ...

THE STORY. THIS PIANO IS AT THE CENTER OF THE STORY. IN AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON. IT’S A FAMILY HEIRLOOM, AND IT IS THE CENTER OF CONFLICT BETWEEN BOY WILLIE AND BERNIE’S BROTHER AND SISTER. I ...