August Wilson Century Cycle
by August Wilson

Name: August Wilson Century Cycle
Brand: August Wilson
SKU: 9781559363075
Rating: 4.76 (77 reviews)

August Wilson Century Cycle Book Cover — August Wilson Century Cycle Cover

Highlights

Female

Male

Comedy

Awards & Recognition

Drama Critics Circle Drama Desk Award Tony Award

Winner! 2007 New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Best Play Nominee: 2007 Tony Award, Best Play Nominee: 2007 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding Play August Wilson is the recipient of the 1986 Whiting Award for Drama.

Synopsis

Series introduction by John Lahr with individual volumes introduced by Laurence Fishburne, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Marion McClinton, Toni Morrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, Phylicia Rashad, Ishmael Reed, and Frank Rich.

"No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."--John Lahr, "The New Yorker ".

Press Reviews

"Gorgeous writing with a big heart! Not only is this Wilson's most contemporary work. It is also his most accessible and most unambiguously political - an urgent call to remember what the 20th century has done to these people and its community."
— Newsday

"The dialogue crackles with the poetry and fierce conscience that made Wilson one of this country's most essential artists!"
— USA Today

"Surprising, suspenseful, and crowd-rousing. The final play in August Wilson's magnificent cycle has crackling comedy, engaging snap, and theatrical zest. In Mr. Wilson's world, the song, it seems, hasn't ended after all."
— The New York Times

"It's hard not to feel the tug of emotion as the curtain rises on Radio Golf, the final play in August Wilson's astounding 10-play cycle. It may be the clearest and most accessible of the lot, and the most rewarding. Watching, one ponders who will fill Wilson's shoes - will anybody be so fearless and unflinching about the realities of black life in America? One doubts it."
— The Journal News