Maxson and his family are center stage in August Wilson’s play FENCES, a Pulitzer Prize winner, now playing at the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company. Despite the deep societal and personal issues that ...

August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences has finally made it to the big screen, directed by Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington. Wilson’s masterful storytelling about a ...

It’s always a pleasure to watch a theater company and its acting company grow, and audiences have a wonderful opportunity to see it happening with the Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe’s thoroughly ...

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 ...

This production of “Fences” is a part of a broader city-wide celebration of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle. (Courtesy Photo) Chesapeake Shakespeare Company will produce August Wilson’s “Fences ...