He was a man made of words. And with his words dipped in the lyric pools of blues and jazz, he remade how the world sees Black people. Playwright August Wilson created dramas such as "Ma Rainey's ...

Playwright August Wilson, pictured at Yale University in 2005, is the subject of a sweeping new unauthorized biography. (Michelle McLoughlin / Associated Press) No dramatist survives the journey from ...

Update: Due to illness, Patti Hartigan’s Aug. 24 virtual talk at the Mark Twain House & Museum has been postponed. The new date has yet to be determined. Connecticut played a major role in the success ...

Playwright August Wilson's "Gem of the Ocean" was at the Goodman Theatre in 2003. Wilson is the subject of a new biography, "August Wilson: A Life," by Patti Hartigan. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago ...

Audiences at the Glen Hazel Recreation Center in Pittsburgh could hardly have known, as they watched the sole performance of a modest two-character play called “Recycle” one summer night in 1973, that ...

After she saw the late August Wilson’s theatrical memoir “How I Learned What I Learned” in a production at the Huntington Theatre Company in 2016, the idea to write a book about Wilson’s life took ...

New Dominion Bookshop will host a book reading and signing with author Patti Hartigan on Sunday at 2 p.m. Hartigan will be reading from her new book, August Wilson: A Life, which was released from ...

Opening night, 1986. August Wilson’s play “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. Patti Hartigan, a rising young critic and arts writer, took her seat for the pre-Broadway ...

Which playwright was nominated for the most Pulitzer Prizes (six, winning twice) and the second-most Tony Awards ever (nine, winning once)? Would you guess Eugene O’Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur ...

August Wilson (1945–2005) was an American playwright. He has been referred to as the "theater's poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of ten plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh ...