Then he did Wilson’s “Jitney” at the Pittsburgh Public Theatre ... enough to get him known in theater circles as “an August Wilson actor” though he said there was a 17-year gap before ...

“August Wilson: The Writer’s Landscape” opens ... The cycle begins with “Jitney” from 1982 and concludes with “Radio Golf” from 2005. It includes the Pulitzer winners, “Fences ...

August Wilson wrote “Seven Guitars,” above ... The first play in what would become the “American Century Cycle,” “Jitney” — about the denizens of an unlicensed cab company ...

In 1979, he began writing Jitney. Much later ... Other plays written by August Wilson include Fullerton Street, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, The Homecoming, How I Learned What I Learned ...

August Wilson (1945 – 2005) was a Pulitzer-prize-winning playwright ... collectively called The American Century Cycle or The ...

August Wilson's "Fences" runs through Feb. 23 at Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe. Wali Jamal didn’t write the book on August ...

A lot has changed in the world since Jim Weaver first directed August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize ... in 1985, following “Jitney” and “Ma Rainey.” Robinson is working with a cast of actors ...