In three U.S. cities, a new production of the playwright’s cabdriver drama “Jitney” will be imported from Italy.

THE STORY. THIS PIANO IS AT THE CENTER OF THE STORY. IN AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON. IT’S A FAMILY HEIRLOOM, AND IT IS THE CENTER OF CONFLICT BETWEEN BOY WILLIE AND BERNIE’S BROTHER AND SISTER. I ...

During the latter decades of the 20 th century, the works penned by a racially mixed, high school dropout from the economically depressed Hill District area of Pittsburgh began to cause a rumble ...

August Wilson is among Pittsburgh’s most honored sons. Famously, nine of the 10 “American Century Cycle” plays that together define his artistic legacy were set in the Hill District, where he was born ...

This summer, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will be pulling out all the stops to celebrate the late legendary Pittsburgh-born playwright August Wilson. With their August Wilson’s American ...