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.
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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...
Continue reading "August Wilson: 1945-2005"
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