hill district (pittsburgh, pa.)

A play by August Wilson that captures the experiences of African-Americans in the 1970s.

Paints a portrait of the African-American experience in the changing decade of the 1960s through the lives of restaurant owner Memphis Lee and the people who live in his Pittsburgh block, which is scheduled for demolition.

A play by August Wilson that captures the experiences of African-Americans in the 1970s.

The last of August Wilson's ten-play chronicle of the African-American experience, in which Aunt Ester's former home in Pittsburgh is slated for demolition in 1990 to make way for a real estate venture designed to revitalize the area, and Harmond Wilks makes a run for mayor.

A play by August Wilson in which Aunt Ester, the 285-year-old matriarch of a African-American family, helps two young men start their lives over in 1904.