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Susan Booth ushers in a new day with a new season at the Goodman Theatre

Artistic director — the first woman to lead the 98-year-old theater — revealed an eclectic lineup for 2023-24.

Chicago Sun-Times

Fences: August Wilson's play powerfully affirms the value and struggles of black life

Fences, a creative examination of a black family’s experience, is one of the most frequently performed plays in the US. It was first developed in 1983 by celebrated African American dramatist August Wilson, becoming a successful Broadway production in 1987.

The Conversation

Those who rule want to crush knowledge

The ruling class does not want us to know who we are, or to understand the struggles of those who came before us

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Review: Samuel L. Jackson stars in a not-always-in-tune Broadway revival of 'The Piano Lesson'

NEW YORK — Spoiled as we've been with superb revivals of August Wilson plays, it's almost confusing to encounter a high-profile Broadway production that doesn't quite live up to expectations.

Los Angeles Times

Review: ‘The Piano Lesson’ on Broadway stars Samuel L. Jackson and reveals August Wilson’s new status

NEW YORK — For anyone who knows how hard August Wilson once struggled to get his plays financed and produced on Broadway with mostly unknown actors from his informal repertory company from the hinterlands, the writer’s newly vaulted Gotham status is nothing short of amazing.

Chicago Tribune

The Piano Lesson review – August Wilson revival hits a bum note

John David Washington and Samuel L Jackson star in a tonally misjudged drama oddly played for awkward laughs

The Guardian - US

'Legacy' documentary celebrates August Wilson Center's triumphs and struggles

PITTSBURGH — South Side director and cinematographer Billy Jackson says his documentary, "The August Wilson Center — Building on a Legacy," is about much more than the Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright from Pittsburgh.

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Aboriginal actor-turned-director Shari Sebbens takes the reins on new theatre productions in Sydney and Melbourne in 2023

The Jabirr Jabirr and Bardi actor-turned-director is best known for her film and TV work, but her first love is theatre - and in 2023, she's directing a whopping four shows on Australia's main stages.

ABC News

Tyler Perry goes back in time for his latest Netflix flick ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’

ATLANTA — In 1995, Tyler Perry was a broke, struggling screenwriter who would sneak into Alliance Theatre plays during intermission, entering with the smokers.

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From junkie poets to jailtime: August Wilson’s How I Learned What I Learned – review

Lester Purry is at home performing the late playwright’s breezy yet purposeful collection of stories from his youth, in its European premiere

The Guardian - UK

Exceptional cast makes the most of tentative approach to ‘Fences’ at American Blues Theater

In director Monty Cole’s staging, August Wilson’s 1950s-set drama swings for the fences with mixed results.

Chicago Sun-Times

The week in theatre: A Doll’s House, Part 2; Jitney – review

Lucas Hnath’s sequel to the Ibsen classic is intriguing rather than revelatory; but August Wilson’s taxi-stand drama has developed new flavour with age

The Guardian - UK

Samuel L. Jackson has no regrets. Except maybe for how the Oscars played out.

LOS ANGELES — If you want to soak in a moment of pure joy — and who doesn't these days? — watching Samuel L. Jackson receive an honorary Oscar from Denzel Washington at this year's Governors Awards should do the trick.

Los Angeles Times

Jitney at the Old Vic review: Tinuke Craig’s production of August Wilson’s classic fairly crackles

Superb performances drive this thrilling slice of history that resonates powerfully today

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The Independent UK

Jitney director Tinuke Craig: ‘I’m from Brixton, so I know the feeling in this play intimately’

August Wilson’s tale of a cab office in Pittsburgh threatened by ‘regeneration’ struck a chord with the 34-year-old director. She tells Nicole Vassell why she’d like Black people to come and see it at the Old Vic

Evening Standard

Tinuke Craig interview: August Wilson wrote about gentrification, in Brixton we know what that’s like

The director’s new prodution of Jitney opens at the Old Vic in June - it’s 40 years old but it still resonates today

Chicago Sun-Times

Changing times of the 1960s redefine the American Dream in ‘Two Trains Running’

By focusing on the more mundane and also bringing a broader historical perspective, playwright August Wilson captured how the hope of the young was met by the weariness of those who had seen it all before.

Chicago Sun-Times

Court Theatre to receive 2022 Regional Theatre Tony Award

The honor comes with a $25,000 grant for the Hyde Park theater company currently in the midst of its 67th season.

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August Wilson block party kicks off yearlong celebration of Pittsburgh playwright

PITTSBURGH — Russell Hornsby met August Wilson in 1995 as a senior at Boston University. The late playwright and Hill District native brought his then-new play "Seven Guitars" to a nearby theater and took an interest in Hornsby, one of the few Black aspiring actors at BU.

The Guardian - UK

Viola Davis on Hollywood: ‘You either have to be a Black version of a white ideal, or you have to be white’

She rose from poverty to become the first Black person to win acting’s triple crown. Now she is playing Michelle Obama and opening up about her tough path to the top

Los Angeles Times

You can call Courtney B. Vance an 'overnight sensation.' But you'd be wrong

Since his debut in the original Broadway productions of August Wilson's "Fences" and John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation," Courtney B. Vance has jumped between stage and screen, playing an extensive gallery of strong, vibrant characters in a career that has spanned almost four decades.

Chicago Sun-Times

August Wilson’s epic ‘Gem of the Ocean’ unfolds in a powerful revival at Goodman Theatre

The struggles and hopes of Blacks in America across the centuries begin to unfold in the first work in August Wilson’s Century Cycle.

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