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Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by August Wilson, first produced on Broadway in 1988 and included in his ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle. Set in a Pittsburgh boardinghouse in 1911, it follows residents shaped by migration, family separation, and the aftermath of slavery, especially Herald Loomis, who...
Seven Guitars is a play by August Wilson, first produced in the 1990s and set in Pittsburgh's Hill District in 1948. Beginning after the funeral of blues guitarist Floyd Barton, it looks back at the events surrounding his return home, his ambitions, and his death through the lives of seven character...
Two Trains Running is a play by August Wilson, first produced in 1990 and included in his ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle about African American life across the twentieth century. Set in a Pittsburgh diner in 1969, it follows its owner and regular customers as urban redevelopment, racial inequality, econo...
Jitney is a play by August Wilson set in an unlicensed taxi station in Pittsburgh's Hill District during the 1970s. Its drivers confront unstable work, strained family relationships, neighborhood redevelopment, and the threatened demolition of the station, while the play examines dignity and communi...
Gem of the Ocean is a play by August Wilson set in Pittsburgh's Hill District in 1904. It is the earliest story chronologically in Wilson's ten-play Century Cycle, which depicts African American life across each decade of the twentieth century. The drama centers on Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old spiritu...
Radio Golf is a 2005 play by August Wilson and the final work in his ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle, with each installment depicting Black life in a different decade of the twentieth century. Set in Pittsburgh's Hill District in 1997, it follows businessman Harmond Wilks as a redevelopment project and hi...
Opened in 1925 as the Virginia Theatre, it was renamed in 2005 to honor Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson following his death that year.
King Hedley II is a play by August Wilson set in Pittsburgh's Hill District in 1985. Its central character, recently released from prison, tries to finance a new life while confronting poverty, violence, family history, and limited opportunity. Written as part of Wilson's ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle,...
