Wilson, August

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.

Dramatizes the struggles of an African-American family as they consider selling a prized possession, an ornate upright piano, in order to buy the tract of land upon which they were once enslaved.

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.

Chapter six in a continuing theatrical saga that explores the African-American experience in the twentieth century, following a small group of friends who have gathered together in Pittsburgh's Hill district in 1948 to mourn the death of local blues guitarist Floyd "Schoolboy" Barton.

Presents playwright August Wilson's epic tragedy of an African-American man struggling to overcome the challenges of everyday life in an urban society.

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.

Presents the script for a two-act play set in a Chicago recording studio in 1927 where African-American band members and blues singer Ma Rainey reveal the conflicted feelings they have about their status in the white man's world.