Review: Seven Guitars by City Lit Needs Some Fine Tuning
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Dispatch: Chicago International Film Festival Opens With a New August Wilson Adaptation, Plus First Films to See at 60th Event
The 60th Chicago International Film Festival kicks off on Wednesday, October 16, with a gala screening of the new film adaptation of The Piano Lesson, based on August Wilson’s play. […]
Review: At Goodman Theatre, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone Portrays Black Struggles 50 Years After Emancipation
The entire flow of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone is set in the kitchen of Seth and Bertha Holly’s boardinghouse—the heart of the home is an appropriate setting for a play that […]
Review: How I Learned What I Learned by Congo Square Theatre Is Wisdom on Being Black in America
Congo Square Theatre is celebrating a landmark anniversary of 25 years of producing and staging plays written by Black artists about the Black experience in America. Their production of August […]
Review: Heartache Overshadows Black Lives in Milwaukee Rep’s Seven Guitars
Black history month may be over but, in Milwaukee, a perspective of Black lives is offered this month in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars. Milwaukee Repertory Theater, in conjunction with Cincinnati […]
Review: Court Theatre’s Two Trains Running Cannonballs Home
There are two ways to tell history: the Big Men, Big Events timeline that Henry Ford once called “just one damn thing after another” and a more involving, intimate option […]
Review: Black Women’s Work Underpins Goodman Theatre’s Gem of the Ocean
Black history is continuously under attack, even during Black History Month. Some jurisdictions and politicians are busily banning books and curriculums that even mention America’s original sin of slavery. Playwright […]
Review: Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman Bring Energy, Urgency to August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
If you asked me who my favorite playwright of all time is, I wouldn’t hesitate to answer August Wilson. I was living in New York City in 1990 when I […]
Review: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, August Wilson’s Essential Chicago Masterpiece, Sings at Writers Theatre
August Wilson famously tackled the entirety of the 20th century with his poetic works of human tragedy and mythic resilience. Wilson’s plays like to live in the same Pittsburgh neighborhood […]