Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s buzziest movies continues with ...
August in Winter. August Wilson, that is. One of the most prolific playwrights of the late 20th century, who profiled the ...
In 2018 Wali Jamal was named Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Performer of the Year and is the only actor in the world to have appeared in all 11 of August Wilson's plays - the 10-play Pittsburgh cycle and ...
Pittsburgh actor Wali Jamal is no stranger to a one-man show. On Monday, Jamal was in Downtown Pittsburgh portraying everyone ...
The playwright August Wilson, who’s best known for his series chronicling 20th-century Black American life (colloquially known as the Century Cycle), paid forensic attention to how everyday families ...
John David Washington spent four months playing Boy Willie in the recent Broadway production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” Acting opposite Samuel L. Jackson, who originated the role ...
And it’s with the same erudite intensity and generosity that he speaks about the writing of the legendary American playwright August Wilson, particularly his seminal 1987 piece The Piano Lesson ...
John David Washington on translating his 'Piano Lesson' performance from Broadway to Netflix and what he's learned from ...
Wilson African American Cultural Center has announced the addition of three new members to the Board of Directors. Learn more ...
In January, however, Jamal, 62, of Beltzhoover, will take on a character with a little more local history, playing Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson in the one-man show, "How I Learned ...
Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In the 2020 documentary Giving Voice, one of Wilson’s longtime collaborators notes that part of the playwright’s evocative power came from his choice in ...