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Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part " Pittsburgh Cycle ". Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations , among other themes.
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 ...
The educational component of True Colors Theatre Company is the August Wilson Monologue Competition, which was begun in 2007 by Kenny Leon and Todd Kreidler, dramaturg to the playwright August Wilson, after his death in 2005. In 2009 the program became a national program exposing high school students across the United States to the works of ...
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.
A photo of Scott Bradley's set design for August Wilson's Fences in the Angus Bowmer Theatre. Source: Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Author: Jenny Graham, Oregon Shakespeare Festival staff photographer: Permission (Reusing this file)
Pittsburgh native August Wilson's wrote his 1979 group portrait "Jitney," opening at the Vortex Theatre from March 8-24, in tribute to the lives of these drivers. The Hill District was home to ...
Fences is a 2016 American period drama film directed and co-produced by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson, based on his 1985 play. It stars Washington, Viola Davis , Stephen McKinley Henderson , Jovan Adepo , Russell Hornsby , Mykelti Williamson , and Saniyya Sidney .