Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Adapted by legendary writer August Wilson from his own renowned play, ...

Wilson's Fences is set in Pittsburgh in the late 50s. The play pursues the Maxson family and the struggles they experience both personally and societally. At the center of these troubles is Troy ...

“Fences,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning drama by August Wilson, was written in 1983 and had its premiere on Broadway in 1987. But the play is set 30 years before that, in a lower-middle-class black ...

We only have a short while on the phone, but for a few minutes we're two guys talking about our favorite, shared, high-school hangout. "Greasy Nick's!" says Denzel Washington, using the name only a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Paramount Pictures, with the Curran theater and the San Francisco Film Society, ...

NEW YORK (AP) — When August Wilson's widow first toured the set for the new movie based on his play "Fences," she carefully examined the modest two-story brick house, the small yard and the tree where ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Moonlight drive continues. The Black Film Critics Circle today named the festival breakout as its Best Film of 2016 and gave Best Director and Original Screenplay nods to the film’s ...

"He's completely embarrassing our country right now. We all have red blood," says Todd Black as he shares what he plans to tell the president at the podium if his film wins. By Ashley Lee The process ...