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Playwright August Wilson’s Broadway Legacy Topped With a Posthumous Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Playwright August Wilson’s Broadway legacy topped with a posthumous Hollywood honor, a star on the Walk of Fame
The groundbreaking series of 10 plays, each taking place in a different decade of the 20th century and most of them set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, depicts Black lives with complexity, dignity and a tinge of magical realism. Beginning with his 1984 Broadway breakout, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and continuing through richly detailed works including “Fences,” “The Piano Lesson” and “Seven Guitars,” Wilson’s oeuvre blazed trails and spotlit stage talent who would go on to become some of Hollywood’s biggest film and TV stars. “For me, August Wilson represents home,” says Viola Davis, an EGOT who won a Tony Award for her performance in the 2010 Broadway revival of “Fences” and then an Oscar when she reprised her role in the 2016 movie adaptation.
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