Articles Tagged With: August Wilson

(L to R) Louis B. Murray as Troy, Ryan Willis as Lyons, Tillmon Figgs as Bono and JoAn Monplaisir as Rose in August Wilson's Fences at Bowie Community Theatre 📸 Reed Sigmon.

Fences at Bowie Community Theatre

As I watched this long-awaited production of August Wilson’s Fences from the Bowie Community Theatre (it was set to open in March 2020 before life got so much more… interesting), I couldn’t help recalling lines from Philip Larkin’s “This Be the Verse”:

They f*ck you up, your mum and dad.  

    They may not mean to, but they do.  

They fill you with the faults they had

   

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Radio Golf at Everyman Theatre

Right is right and right don’t wrong nobody. A strong decry
of truth and justice in a time when its sorely needed; to think such words
originated from August Wilson just 14 years ago (taking place a mere decade
before that) in Radio Golf, the last in Wilson’s Century Cycle play
series. Now appearing on the main stage of Everyman Theatre as the second dramatic
offering in their 2019/2020 season, Radio Golf,

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Two Trains Running at Spotlighters Theatre

You got love and you got death; it’s all you got. And death will find you, but you’ve gotta find love. And believe you me, you’re going to find it when you fall in love with this stellar production of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running at The Audrey Herman Spotlighters Theatre this fall. Kicking off their 56th season— A Place Where We Belong— this 7th play of the 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle by the renowned and award-winning playwright,

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Review: Fences at Everyman Theatre

You got to take the crooked with the straights, roll with the punches, and prepare to tackle death when it comes. The August Wilson classic Fences slides into the second show slot of the 25th Anniversary season at Everyman Theatre. Directed by Clinton Turner Davis, the play articulates the age-long struggle of man versus death and throws in the American classic kitchen sink drama of love, loss, and family in the process.

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