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It’s rare for a production to offer a full-fledged meditation on grief, race/class struggles, greed, the questionable influences of technology, and the crippling effects of fear on human dynamics. It’s rarer for a large cast to offer such stellar performances that it’s nigh impossible to choose a standout. And it’s even rarer for these achievements to include Motown-inspired original songs that give beat and rhythm to an unpredictable story and a wide range of emotions.

August Wilson, "Theater's Poet of Black America", passed away yesterday after a brief fight with liver cancer. He was 60. Wilson, whom we profiled back in June, was the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of a ten-piece, decade-by-decade exposition of the twentieth century as experienced by African Americans - from dealing with extraordinary obstacles like race relations, segregation, and the suffrage movement, to the banalities of daily life. Most recently the Pro Arts Collective performed Wilson's...