Black Theatre Troupe will present Jitney a powerful and deeply human drama by two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson, ...

Playwright August Wilson, pictured at Yale University in 2005, is the subject of a sweeping new unauthorized biography. (Michelle McLoughlin / Associated Press) No dramatist survives the journey from ...

All human beings are shaped by the times, locations and circumstances in which they were raised. For the late playwright August Wilson, described as one of America's most influential playwrights and ...

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 ...

Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson, who died in 2005, is one of the prides of Pittsburgh - yet until this week, there has been no site in his hometown where fans could go ...

Theater-goers have a chance to make a visible investment in the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Downtown Pittsburgh through new seat-naming opportunities. The initiative is a ...

When playwright August Wilson was born in 1945, his family lived in a two-room apartment on the second floor of a red-brick building on Bedford Avenue in the Hill District. While the sidewalk in front ...

LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs her husband, starring opposite Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson’s drama about African Americans wrestling with the painful past. By David Rooney ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — This weekend marks a historic moment in the Hill District. The grand opening of the newly-restored August Wilson House on Bedford Avenue will draw family, community members and ...