Podcast Episodes featuring August Wilson

Best of - August Wilson and Lloyd Richards: The Voice of Genius

What It Takes® - February 08, 2021 08:05 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 913 ratings
In the past few weeks, the U.S. Postal Service issued a stamp honoring playwright August Wilson, and Netflix released a film version of Wilson's celebrated play, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."  It stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman, in his final role.  That is why we were inspired to revisit th...

New Cuban President, same Revolution, August Wilson's Two Trains Running Still Relevant

By Any Means Necessary - April 20, 2018 20:57 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 361 ratings
On this episode of "By Any Means Necessary" Eugene Puryear and Sean Blackmon are joined by Meghna Chandra, a member of the 2018 organizing committee of the Year of DuBois to talk about their upcoming event "Blessed are the Peacemakers" which highlights how anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism mus...

August Wilson and Lloyd Richards: The Voice of Genius

What It Takes® - February 13, 2017 08:01 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 913 ratings
Meet two giants of the American theater: playwright August Wilson and director Lloyd Richards. Together they brought many award-winning plays to Broadway, including "Fences," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," and "The Piano Lesson." August Wilson, who wrote ten plays (together known as the Century Cyc...

Alan Nadel, “August Wilson: Completing the Twentieth-Century Cycle” (University of Iowa Press, 2010)

New Books Network - May 30, 2011 19:22 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 123 ratings
Many scholars consider August Wilson to be the premier American playwright of the 20th Century. Alan Nadel is surely one of their number. In the early 1990s, he focused our attention on Wilson’s plays in the outstanding collection of essays May All Your Fences Have Gates: Essays on the Drama of A...