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I first laid eyes on Rick Wilson, a newbie from Edinboro, Pennsylvania, in junior high shop class, circa 1966. If it was a day ending in “y,” he was being scolded by our shop teacher, Mr. Muir, for ...

Shakespeare & Company will present The Piano Lesson by August Wilson from July 25 through August 24 at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, in partnership with Actors’ Shakespeare Project. This marks the ...

August Wilson's The Piano Lesson is the fourth installment of the American Century Cycle and a haunting play about legacy. Berniece and her brother Boy Willie fight over the fate of the family piano; ...

English teacher Anne Loudon knew of the late 1990s feud between playwright August Wilson and theater critic Robert Brustein through her knowledge of Wilson’s 1996 “The Ground on Which I Stand” speech ...