LENOX — Ask Christopher V. Edwards what led him to a career in theater and the director-actor will answer in two words — August Wilson. “He’s in a lane of his own,” said Edwards, who is directing ...

Even when a play is beautifully written, theater leaves room for adaptation, which is what Trinity Repertory Company promises with its current staging of the August Wilson classic “Fences.” “This ...

It was a glorious Sunday night in August to see August Wilson’s words performed outdoors. In this case, the play was the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fences,” the first of three of Wilson’s works being ...

A moving study of emotional depth and the human condition, August Wilson's Fences follows the story of Troy Maxson - a working-class Black man struggling to provide for his family. His past includes ...

What is perhaps August Wilson's most well-known play may also be his most powerful. In segregated 1957 Pittsburgh, former Negro League baseball player Troy Maxson is now scraping by as a sanitation ...

It’s always a pleasure to watch a theater company and its acting company grow, and audiences have a wonderful opportunity to see it happening with the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s thoroughly ...

AUGUST WILSON. JAMES EARL JONES, AN INSPIRATION TO GENERATIONS OF ASPIRING ACTORS BOTH ON SCREEN AND ON STAGE. TONIGHT, TWO LOCAL ACTORS GIVING US A GLIMPSE INTO HIS ROLE AS TROY MAXSON IN FENCES AND ...

Playwright August Wilson cuts straight to the heart in his masterful work, "Fences." Bono, one of the play's six characters, says, "Some people build fences to keep people out…and other people build ...

LENOX, MASS. — I have seen several productions of August Wilson’s play “Fences.” Usually, I leave the theater simply admiring the work and the writing. Leaving the production of “Fences,” playing at ...

“Fences,” directed by and starring Denzel Washington based on the play by August Wilson, opens in theatres nationwide on Christmas Day. The film is rated PG-13 with a running time of 138 minutes. As ...

Tony Cosby is putting up fences. Not the kind that keep neighbors friendly, but August Wilson's 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning play for which Denzel Washington won a Best Actor Tony Award earlier this ...

The life of former Negro-league baseball player Troy Maxson, here a sanitation worker trying his best to support his family, is explored in “Fences,” the Tony Award and 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning ...