August Wilson has been referred to (by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.) as “the most celebrated American playwright now writing, and . . . certainly the most accomplished black playwright in this nation’s history.” Earlier this fall the beneficiary of Mr. Gates’s praise was in.
Norwich ― The atmosphere in the room feels serene.
One person is laser-focused on the small canvas that sits on a tabletop easel. She takes one of the brushes from a tin and dips it into the yellow p.
“Sloane: A Jazz Singer,” which will be screened Sunday in Newburyport, brings into focus the life and career of the Providence native, who died earlier this year at 85.
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It wasn't easy for Frederick August Kittel Jr., a high school dropout from Pittsburgh's Hill District, to transform himself into August Wilson, the venerable playwright whose 10-play cycle examining 20th century Black life in America earned him a seat in the pantheon beside Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Mi