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Fences

August Wilson

A Pulitzer Prize winner. Garbage collector Troy Maxson clashes with his son over an athletic scholarship.
The Piano Lesson

August Wilson

Set in 1936, The Piano Lesson is a powerful new play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. A sister and brother fight over a piano that has been in the family for three generations, creating a remarkable drama that embodies the painful past and expectant future of black Americans.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

August Wilson

In a jazz-era Chicago recording studio, musicians await the great blues diva.
August Wilson: Three Plays

August Wilson

This collection features Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, voted Best Play of 1984-85 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle, Fences, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone, voted Best Play of 1987-88 by the New York Drama Critics' Circle.
Jitney

August Wilson

Set in the 1970s in Pittsburgh's Hill District, and depicting gypsy cabdrivers who serve black neighborhoods, Jitney is the seventh in Wilson's projected 10-play cycle (one for each decade) on the black experience in twentieth-century America. A thoroughly revised version of a play Wilson first wrote in 1979, Jitney was produced in New York for the first time in spring 2000, winning rave reviews and the accolade of the New York Drama Critics Circle as the best play of the year.

One of contemporary theater's most distinguished and eloquent voices, August Wilson writes not about historical events or the pathologies of the black community, but, as he says, about "the unique particulars of black culture . . . I wanted to place this culture onstage in all its richness and fullness and to demonstrate its ability to sustain us . . . through profound moments in our history in which the larger society has thought less of us than we have thought of ourselves."
Black Thunder: An Anthology of African-American Drama

William B. Branch, Amiri Baraka, August Wilson

An anthology of African American plays features Ed Bullins's The Taking of Miss Jane, George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum, and August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning work, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom.
August Wilson and Black Aesthetics

August Wilson and Black Aesthetics offers new essays that address issues raised in Wilson's "The Ground on Which I Stand" speech. Essays and interviews range from examinations of the presence of Wilson's politics in his plays to the limitations of these politics on contemporary interpretations of Black aesthetics. Also included is Sybil Roberts' A Liberating Prayer: A Lovesong for Mumia, that, for two seasons, has played to sold out houses, but that until now has not been published.
American Writers: A Collection of Literary Biographies : Supplement VIII (American Writers. Supplement, No 8)

T, C. Boyle, August Wilson

This supplement adds 18 acclaimed writers, including Jim Harrison, Alfred Kazin, Bobbi Ann Mason, Thomas Merton, Gary Snyder and others. (20030901)