Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: fences
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1986-06-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0452264014
ISBN-13: 9780452264014

Drama / 5m, 2f / 1 Set Winner of the New York Drama Critic’s and Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a Negro from the major leagues during his prime, Troy’s bitterness takes it’s toll on his relationships with both his wife and son who now wants his own chance to play. "One of the great characters in American drama." - The New York Post "One of the richest experiences I have ever had in th

Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Keywords: fences
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2010-02-05
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0573619050
ISBN-13: 9780573619052

Drama / 5m, 2f / 1 Set Winner of the New York Drama Critic’s and Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works as a garbage man in 1957 Pittsburgh. Excluded as a Negro from the major leagues during his prime, Troy’s bitterness takes it’s toll on his relationships with both his wife and son who now wants his own chance to play. "One of the great characters in American drama." - The New York Post "One of the richest experiences I have ever had in th

Author: August Wilson
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: plays, three, wilson, august
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1991-06-03
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0822936666
ISBN-13: 9780822936664

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.

Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: come, turner, joe
Number of Pages: 94
Published: 1988-10-30
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0452260094
ISBN-13: 9780452260092

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group
Keywords: cycle, century, wilson, august
Published: 2007-10-02
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 155936307X
ISBN-13: 9781559363075

Series introduction by John Lahr with individual volumes introduced by Laurence Fishburne, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Marion McClinton, Toni Morrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, Phylicia Rashad, Ishmael Reed, and Frank Rich. “No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.”—John Lahr, The New Yorker “Heroic is not a word one uses often without embarrassment to describe a writer or playwright, but the diligence and ferocity of effort behind the creation of his body of work is really an epic story. . . . For all th

Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: guitars, seven
Number of Pages: 107
Published: 1997-08-01
List price: $12.00
ISBN-10: 0452276926
ISBN-13: 9780452276925

Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson’s Seven Guitars is the sixth chapter in the continuing theatrical saga that explores the hope, heartbreak, and heritage of the African American experience in the twentieth century. Winner of the New York drama Critics Circle award for Best New Play, it is "a play whose epic proportions and abundant spirit remind us of what the American theater once was."--Vincent Canby, The New York Times.

Author: August Wilson
Publisher: Plume
Keywords: running, trains
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1993-01-01
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 0452269296
ISBN-13: 9780452269293

Memphis Lee’s restaurant becomes the focal point for a community that must chose between a three hundred-year-old woman and an uncertain future.