Musicals / Plays August Wilson Plays List
Fences
Fences is a 1983 play by 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. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. ...more on Wikipedia
Authors / Creators: August Wilson , Branford Marsalis
Characters: Cory, Troy, Rose, Mr. Rand, Lyons, + more
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Gem of the Ocean is a play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the first installment of his decade-by-decade, ten-play chronicle, The Pittsburgh Cycle, dramatizing the African-American experience in the twentieth century. ...more on Wikipedia
Authors / Creators: August Wilson
Characters: Cesar Wilkes, Eli, Aunt Ester Tyler, Rutherford Selig, "Black" Mary Wilkes, + more
see more on Gem of the OceanJitney
Jitney is a play in two acts by August Wilson. The eighth in his "Pittsburgh Cycle", this play is set in a worn-down gypsy cab station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in early autumn 1977. ...more on Wikipedia
Authors / Creators: August Wilson
see more on JitneyKing Hedley II
King Hedley II is a play by American playwright August Wilson, the eighth in his ten-part series, The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play ran on Broadway in 2001 and was revived Off-Broadway in 2007. ...more on Wikipedia
Authors / Creators: August Wilson