"No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."-John Lahr, The New Yorker "A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson's career will find in Gem a touchstone for everything else he has written."-Ben Brantley, The New York Times "Wilson's juiciest material. The play holds the stage and its characters hammer home, strongly, the notion of newfound freedom."-Michael Phillips, Chicago
The Piano Lesson is the fourth of August Wilson's cycle of plays about the African American experience in the twentieth century. It opened at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1987, and, later, on Broadway, to great success. The play was inspired by Romare Bearden's painting Piano Lesson. It is set in Pittsburgh in 1936 and focuses upon the relationship between the Charles siblings, Berniece and Boy Willie, who clash over whether or not their family's piano should be sold. In the mid- nineteenth century, when
"The first staged reading of August Wilson's play Fences occurred in 1983 at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center's National Playwright's Conference. Wilson's drama opened at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1985 and on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre in 1987. Fences was well-received, winning four Antionette (""Tony"") Perry Awards, including best play. The work also won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the John Gassner Outer Critics' Circle Award. Wilson was also selected as
August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, his first play in a ten-play cycle, each chronicling a decade in the African-American experience, was first performed at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1984, though Wilson began writing the play in 1976, after listening to the blues for more than a decade. Set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927, the two-act drama tells the story of a recording session with blues legend Ma Rainey, her band members, and the white producer and agent who made themselves wealthy
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"August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone, first produced in 1986 by the Yale Repertory Theatre, was published in the United States in 1988. The play was inspired both by the 1978 Romare Bearden artwork, Mill Hand's Lunch Bucket, and the blues song, ""Joe Turner's Come and Gone."" The song, which was recorded by legendary blues artist, W. C. Handy, was first sung by many estranged black women who had lost their husbands, fathers, and sons to Joe Turner-a plantation owner who illegally enslaved blacks in
» FENCES -AUGUST WILSON FENCES -AUGUST WILSON August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, FENCES, will be presented during the 2008 Oregon Shakespeare Festival season, from February to July in the Angus Bowmer Theatre.
August Wilson Theatre-NY, New York, NY Wednesday, December 30, 2009 8:00 pm MEZZ CENT Mezz Cent Orchesta Seats - Poss Partial View - Some moments of play can be obs briefly. ORCH RT 11th row from stage ORCH LT 11th row from stage CENTER AISLE SEATS / 13TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 2-4 6TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 10-14 / WILL SELL 1 OR 3 HIGH TO LOW Mezz Aisle CENTER AISLE SEATS / 1ST FOUR SEATS ON THE AISLE / 13TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 1-7 / WILL SELL 2 OR 4 HIGH TO LOW / AISLE SEATS AVAILABLE ONLY IF ALL FOUR
August Wilson Theatre-NY CENTER AISLE SEATS / 1ST FOUR SEATS ON THE AISLE / 13TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 2-8 / WILL SELL 2 OR 4 HIGH TO LOW / AISLE SEATS AVAILABLE ONLY IF ALL 4 SEATS ARE PURCHASED 6TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 10-14 / WILL SELL 1 OR 3 HIGH TO LOW seats 1 thru 7 close to center ORCHESTRA OORCH AISLE SEATS / 1ST ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 2-4 CENTER AISLE SEATS / 1ST FOUR SEATS ON THE AISLE / 13TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 1-7 / WILL SELL 2 OR 4 HIGH TO LOW / AISLE SEATS AVAILABLE ONLY IF ALL 4 SEATS ARE
Playwright August Wilson, Photographed at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Conn - Ted Thai - Premium Photographic Print from AllPosters.com
Playwright August Wilson, Photographed at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Conn - Ted Thai - Premium Photographic Print from AllPosters.com
Playwright August Wilson, Photographed at the Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven, Conn - Ted Thai - Premium Photographic Print from AllPosters.com
August Wilson Theatre-NY, New York, NY Friday, November 27, 2009 8:00 pm ORCH. ORCH LFT 19th Row Orchesta; E-tickets Mezz Cent E/F 2 AND A 2 PIGGY BACK. HIGH SEATS GO FIRST seats 1 thru 7 ORCH R CTR 15TH ROW CENTER ORCHESTRA -- Front Center Orch 2ND ROW CENTER ORCHESTRA
August Wilson Theatre-NY, New York, NY Sunday, December 20, 2009 3:00 pm 3PM SHOW Mezz Aisle Mezz Cent PARTIAL VIEW* CENTER ORCHESTRA (FULL VIEW OF STAGE ONLY MISS SOME SCENERY BLOCKED BY BALCONY) Mezz Aisle 8TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 9-11 7TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 10-14 / WILL SELL 1 OR 3 HIGH TO LOW ORCH LFT 9th Row Orchestra; E-tickets 6TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 9-11 5TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 9-11 Mezz Aisle 5TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 10-12 Mezz Aisle 1ST ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 5-7 Mezzanine HIGH SEATS GO
Sunday February 7, 2010 3:00 pm REAR MEZZ * SHIP BY * 1/31 CENTER OR THEATRE
Wednesday February 3, 2010 8:00 pm CENTER OF THEATRE CENTER OF THEATRE CENTER OF THEATRE CENTER OF THEATRE N-Q Mezzanine - Rows N-Q U-ZZ Orchestra - Rows U-ZZ * SHIP BY * 1/27 A-T Orchestra - Rows A-T
Sunday February 28, 2010 3:00 pm * SHIP BY * 2/21 ORCH H 10-12 5TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 10-12 CENTER ORCHESTRA SEATING CENTER OF THEATRE CENTER OF THEATRE
Wednesday March 10, 2010 2:00 pm CENTER MEZZ CENTER OF THEATRE CENTER MEZZ CENTER OF THEATRE N-Q Mezzanine - Rows N-Q Mezzanine - Rows A-M U-ZZ Orchestra - Rows U-ZZ * SHIP BY * 3/3 A-T Orchestra - Rows A-T
Saturday February 6, 2010 8:00 pm N-Q Mezzanine - Rows N-Q U-ZZ Orchestra - Rows U-ZZ * SHIP BY * 1/30 FRONT MEZZANINE 1ST ROW FRONT MEZZANINE / SEATS 5-11 / WILL SELL 2 OR 4 HIGH TO LOW 10th row orchestra ORCH H 9-11 5TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 10-12 CENTER AISLE SEATS / 13TH ROW ORCHESTRA / SEATS 1-7 / WILL SELL 2 OR 4 HIGH TO LOW CENTER ORCHESTRA READY TO SHIP TODAY CENTER OF THEATRE A-T Orchestra - Rows A-T