Cory is a role in Fences, a play that opened West End in 2026. Troy Maxson has cheated death once, but the past keeps closing in. On Pittsburgh’s streets, he cracks jokes and spins stories, yet at ...

In August Wilson's Fences, Troy Maxson is certain he had the skill to play major league baseball, but was been denied the opportunity because of his skin color. It's the late 1950s, a few years after ...

Something's out of whack in the revival of August Wilson's "Fences" at Round House Theatre. This production floats like a bee and stings like a butterfly. The verbal uppercuts, hooks and jabs ...

PULITZER PRIZE and Tony Award winning playwright AUGUST WILSON died this month, succumbing to liver cancer at the age of 60. Sportswriter DAVE ZIRIN looks at perhaps Wilson's most well-known play, ...

Are fences used to keep people in or keep other factors out? Audiences are left begging this question throughout the Ford’s Theatre production of Fences by August Wilson and directed by Timothy ...

Jourdan Olivier-Verdé of Oakland is no stranger to Santa Rosa’s 6th Street Playhouse. He played the wrongly accused Tom Robinson in “To Kill a Mockingbird” there and performed in the ’60s rock musical ...

A premium-quality production of a premium-quality play-what more can an audience member ask for? Virginia Rep's Acts of Faith Festival entry is August Wilson's "Fences," the best-known of his Century ...

A symphony of drama in several movements, August Wilson’s Fences (★★★★☆) rises, falls, and rises mellifluously. In Timothy Douglas’ astute new production at Ford’s Theatre, Wilson’s Pulitzer ...

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Maybe you’re not a theater person. You think the idea of sitting for longer than 15 minutes sounds traumatizing and are not interested unless there’s car crashes and superheroes. That’s fair, but here ...

The Majestic Theater celebrates playwright August Wilson with a 40th anniversary production of his Pulitzer and Tony Award winning play, "Fences." "Fences" was developed in Connecticut, and had its ...