Fences,” now on stage at Houston’s Alley Theatre, has been astounding audiences, critics and prize-givers ever since 1985 ...

The intense production, featuring strong performances from the entire cast, is a master class in showing the emotional and ...

August Wilson’s Fences, now playing at The Old Globe, is the story of an African-American family in 1957. Directed by Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, the entire play is set in the Maxson family’s yard.

Fences lives and dies on its performances and its language, and here, she trusts her cast to do the heavy lifting. The result ...

Set in 1957 Pittsburgh, Fences by August Wilson is a poignant and powerful exploration of family, dreams, and the human condition. The play centers around Troy Maxson, a former baseball star of the ...

Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe may be best known to many theatergoers for its musicals, but occasionally the company presents straight plays—dramas that reflect on the Black American experience and ...

The Majestic Theater celebrates playwright August Wilson with a 40th anniversary production of his Pulitzer and Tony Award winning play, "Fences." "Fences" was developed in Connecticut, and had its ...

There’s a moment in The Old Globe’s beautifully directed and cast production of “Fences” where the play’s troubled central character stands frozen in the spotlight, his cherish baseball bat poised ...

AUGUST WILSON. JAMES EARL JONES, AN INSPIRATION TO GENERATIONS OF ASPIRING ACTORS BOTH ON SCREEN AND ON STAGE. TONIGHT, TWO LOCAL ACTORS GIVING US A GLIMPSE INTO HIS ROLE AS TROY MAXSON IN FENCES AND ...

A dominating — and often entertainingly deafening — quality in some of the best 20th century American playwriting is the larger-than-life character who, through sheer force of will and verbalizing ...