A coin toss decided which of two Netflix limited series should top this month’s roundup. Both are dramatically convincing and, even more to their credit, both t...
The powerhouse film version of August Wilson's Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom on gives us two of 2020’s best screen performances. One is simply her latest, the other ...
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, a film version of the August Wilson drama, drops at 12:01 a.m. Friday (December 18) on Netflix. It's the first, chronologically, in th...
August Wilson’s acclaimed Pittsburgh Cycle of 10 plays famously chronicles the lives of African American residents of Pittsburgh’s Hill District in each decade ...
When the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery commissioned Amy Sherald to paint an official portrait of former first lady Michelle Obama last fall, Sherald...
August Wilson’s grim tragedy King Hedley II is currently having a fine production at Atlanta’s True Colors Theatre, on stage through March 11. It’s a moving pla...
As a playwright, August Wilson amassed a career of work that explored the issues of race relations and the African-American experience, most notably in his 10-p...
