Articles Tagged With: Fences

Dejeanette Horne (left) as Troy and Isaiah C. Evans (right) as Cory in Chesapeake Shakespeare Company’s Fences 📷 Kiirstn Pagan Photography

Fences at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company

Reviews February 7, 2026 Amanda N. Gunther

Some people build fences to keep people out. Other people build fences to keep people in. A powerful statement to be sure; an evocative thought that primes the mind for the emotional journey that is August Wilson’s Fences. Produced at Chesapeake Shakespeare Company as a part of the multi-year, city-wide Baltimore August Wilson Celebration, this striking production is a theatrical pleasure, inviting audiences into the intimate details of day-to-day life in the backyard of the Maxson home in Pittsburgh,

(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

Reviews April 7, 2022 Wes Dennis

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

Review: Fences at Everyman Theatre

Reviews October 27, 2015 Amanda N. Gunther

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.