Wilson, August

Contains three plays about twentieth century African-American lives.

Troy Maxson, a strong, hard man who has learned how to be Black and proud in the 1950s, finds the changing spirit of the 1960s hard to deal with.

In Pittsburg in 1969, the regulars of Memphis Lee's restaurant are struggling to cope with the impending loss of the diner, a casualty of the city's renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit.

A Pulitzer Prize winning play about the black experience in twentieth-century America.

Troy Maxson, a strong, hard man who has learned how to be Black and proud in the 1950s, finds the changing spirit of the 1960s hard to deal with.

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

Paints a potrait 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.

Presents the address delivered by playwright August Wilson to the 11th biennial Theatre Communications Group National Conference at Princeton University on June 26, 1996 and centered around cultural diversity within the American theater.