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The August Wilson Theatre is on 245 West 52nd Street, on the north sidewalk between Eighth Avenue and Broadway, in the Midtown Manhattan neighborhood of New York City. [1] [2] The rectangular land lot covers 13,125 sq ft (1,219.4 m 2), with a frontage of 130.75 ft (39.85 m) on 52nd Street and a depth of 100 ft (30 m).
Theatre [26] Address Seats [27] St. James Theatre: 246 West 44th Street: 1,701 Al Hirschfeld Theatre: 302 West 45th Street: 1,412 August Wilson Theatre: 245 West 52nd Street: 1,222 Eugene O'Neill Theatre: 230 West 49th Street: 1,030 Walter Kerr Theatre: 218 West 48th Street: 931
August Wilson (né Frederick August Kittel Jr.; April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". [ 1 ] He is best known for a series of 10 plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle (or The Century Cycle ) , which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the ...
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Opening night, 1986. August Wilson’s play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Patti Hartigan, a rising young critic and arts writer, took her seat for the ...
Released in 1985, “Fences” is Wilson’s sixth play in his ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle,” which was told across decades to document the African American experience in the 20th Century.
King Hedley II is the ninth play in August Wilson’s ten-play cycle that, decade by decade, examines African American life in the United States during the twentieth century. Set in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1985, it tells the story of an ex-con in Pittsburgh trying to rebuild his life.
August Wilson poses these questions in his 1984 play, “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone.” He asks them of a motley group of characters inhabiting and surrounding a 1911 Pittsburgh boarding house ...