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The August Wilson Collection
Explore the best of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright's work, featuring The American Century Cycle.
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August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson
Full-Length Play, Drama 2w, 5mLoading...
August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 5m
In this ninth work in Wilson’s ten-play American Century Cycle (set in 1904, making it the first chronologically), an elderly sage named Aunt Ester sends a young man on a spiritual journey to the City of Bones.
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August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
August Wilson
Full-Length Play, Drama 5w, 6mLoading...
August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone
Full-Length Play, Drama / 5w, 6m
“Gives haunting voice to the souls of the American dispossessed.” – The New York Times
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August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson
Full-Length Play, Drama 2w, 8mLoading...
August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 8m
In a rundown Chicago recording studio in 1927, tempers rise and simmering conflicts erupt when the “Mother of the Blues” and her band record a set of jazz and blues standards.
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August Wilson's The Piano Lesson
August Wilson
Full-Length Play, Drama 3w, 5mLoading...
August Wilson's The Piano Lesson
Full-Length Play, Drama / 3w, 5m
In August Wilson’s haunting, luminous play set in 1930s Pittsburgh, Berniece and her brother Boy Willie clash over the fate of the family piano; she treasures it as a precious connection to their ancestors, and he sees it as the means to a more prosperous future.
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August Wilson's Seven Guitars
August Wilson
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 3w, 4mLoading...
August Wilson's Seven Guitars
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 3w, 4m
This 1940s installment of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle begins in the backyard of a Pittsburgh tenement in 1948, where friends gather to mourn a blues guitarist and singer who died just as his career was on the verge of taking off.
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August Wilson's Fences
August Wilson
Full-Length Play, Drama 2w, 5mLoading...
August Wilson's Fences
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 5m
Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues, now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded from the major leagues in his prime, Troy has grown increasingly bitter, and his anger and frustration take a toll on his relationships with his wife and son.
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August Wilson's Jitney
August Wilson
Full-Length Play, Drama 1w, 8mLoading...
August Wilson's Jitney
Full-Length Play, Drama / 1w, 8m
Set in 1970 in the office of a makeshift taxi company serving the Hill District of Pittsburgh, August Wilson’s award-winning drama is an exploration of economic struggle, addiction, redemption and father/son relationships.
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August Wilson's King Hedley II
August Wilson
Full-Length Play, Drama 2w, 4mLoading...
August Wilson's King Hedley II
Full-Length Play, Drama / 2w, 4m
Drawing on characters established in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars, August Wilson’s King Hedley II shows the shadows of the past reaching into the present as King Hedley, a man whose self worth is built on self delusion, seeks retribution for his mother’s lie regarding the identity of his father.
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August Wilson's Radio Golf
August Wilson
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 1w, 4mLoading...
August Wilson's Radio Golf
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1w, 4m
August Wilson’s Radio Golf is a fast-paced, dynamic and wonderfully funny work about the world today and the dreams we have for the future. Set in Pittsburgh in the late 1990s, it’s the story of a successful entrepreneur who aspires to become the city’s first Black mayor. But when the past begins to catch up with him, secrets get revealed that could be his undoing.
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How I Learned What I Learned
August Wilson, Todd Kreidler
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy 1mLoading...
How I Learned What I Learned
August Wilson ,Todd Kreidler
Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy / 1m
Through stories about his first jobs, first loves and experiences with racism, August Wilson recounts his life from his roots to the completion of The American Century Cycle, providing an inside look into one of the most celebrated voices of the 20th century.