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August Wilson’s tale of a cab office in Pittsburgh threatened by ‘regeneration’ struck a chord with the 34-year-old director. She tells Nicole Vassell why she’d like Black people to come and see it at the Old Vic

The director’s new prodution of Jitney opens at the Old Vic in June - it’s 40 years old but it still resonates today

By focusing on the more mundane and also bringing a broader historical perspective, playwright August Wilson captured how the hope of the young was met by the weariness of those who had seen it all before.

The honor comes with a $25,000 grant for the Hyde Park theater company currently in the midst of its 67th season.

PITTSBURGH — Russell Hornsby met August Wilson in 1995 as a senior at Boston University. The late playwright and Hill District native brought his then-new play "Seven Guitars" to a nearby theater and took an interest in Hornsby, one of the few Black aspiring actors at BU.

She rose from poverty to become the first Black person to win acting’s triple crown. Now she is playing Michelle Obama and opening up about her tough path to the top

Since his debut in the original Broadway productions of August Wilson's "Fences" and John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation," Courtney B. Vance has jumped between stage and screen, playing an extensive gallery of strong, vibrant characters in a career that has spanned almost four decades.

The struggles and hopes of Blacks in America across the centuries begin to unfold in the first work in August Wilson’s Century Cycle.