At Home in the Heartland
Broke-ology playwright Nathan Louis Jackson comes home to Kansas City
All Stories About August Wilson
That August Wilson Feeling
The words and music of an American master get a fresh read, and they’re as impossible, and transformative, as ever.
News in Brief for September 2013
From the Welders, to cheap tickets at Huntington Theatre Company, to August Wilson on the radio, to all the Lucy Thurber plays you can ever want—this month in national news.
The Light in August Wilson: A Career, a Century, a Lifetime
An African spiritual strength born of adversity undergirds his masterful 10-play circle.
Aunt Ester’s Children: A Century On Stage
The author looks back on the beginnings and development of his 10-play cycle, singling out one character as the most significant.
Manhandled
African-American masculinity–and black womanhood–are examined in August Wilson’s oeuvre.
Building ‘Fences’ in Beijing
August Wilson’s Pittsburgh, and the black American experience, translated into Chinese and transposed to China.
Subsidized Separatism: Responses to ‘The Ground on Which I Stand’
The debate continues in the wake of the address and its aftermath.
An Unlikely History: From ‘Raisin’ to the Present
The play’s original director, and a panoply of artists and scholars, reflect on the legacy and significance of Hansberry’s groundbreaking play.
Stages
New plays from around the world and closer to home.
