August Wilson
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Oct 30, 2026
Brian McDonaldHOST
So many of them are gone now.
Brian McDonaldHOST
August Wilson, people like that.
Brian McDonaldHOST
And then some others are getting older.
Brian McDonaldHOST
But one of the things that is great, two things.
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Brian McDonaldHOST
And all you can think is, oh, that's my friend.
Brian McDonaldHOST
It's a strange feeling.
Brian McDonaldHOST
I remember when August Wilson got a stamp, right? I mean, how many, you know, I don't have a lot of friends who have their own stamp.
Brian McDonaldHOST
Which I said to Tom, because I have an action figure from, which he signed for me, he signed the box for me.
Ruffin PrentissGUEST
While I was at Rutgers, like my first year, Israel Hicks, who was the chair, had passed away.
Ruffin PrentissGUEST
And they decided to do a reading series of the August Wilson plays.
Ruffin PrentissGUEST
And they were bringing in big actors from New York.
Ruffin PrentissGUEST
And God rest her soul, Linda Gravatt came.
Kate DiCamilloGUEST
And the getting to try again and again.
Kate DiCamilloGUEST
I'm pretty sure this was August Wilson who said this in an interview somewhere.
Kate DiCamilloGUEST
I can't find it.
Kate DiCamilloGUEST
If I Google it, what I get is me quoting it, which is, you know, and it's the way I'm pretty sure it's August Wilson.
Kate DiCamilloGUEST
I'm pretty sure he said it was Buddhist.
Kate DiCamilloGUEST
All you deserve is the chance to do the work.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
They've had some pre-Broadway stuff as well.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
Most famously, they nurtured the success of a playwright called August Wilson.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
He's known as the American Shakespeare.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
If you're familiar with the movie Fences or Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, one of the final films of Chadwick Boseman.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
Actor Shakespeare Project, which is one of my do-by-day job work, we say we flip the script on the classics.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
We do Shakespeare, we do Jane Austen, we do a lot of classic work and redefine what it does as a class of work.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
And we do an August Wilson series at the Hibernian Hall in Roxbury, which is really amazing.
Evan TurissiniGUEST
So that's kind of the major players in the midsize scene.
Allan RussellHOST
But we're going to start first of all with something I'm not familiar with this one, Anne, it's called Fence.
Anne HornsbyGUEST
So Fences is based on a book by August Wilson.
Anne HornsbyGUEST
It's a Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece it's described as.
Anne HornsbyGUEST
It's set in 1950s America, and it's about a family.
Hiram SmithGUEST
how we can deeply relate to each other in a personal way.
Hiram SmithGUEST
And I mean like in a Toni Morrison, August Wilson kind of way.
Hiram SmithGUEST
So, you know, you read their texts and there's not a white monitor or a white gaze anywhere.
Hiram SmithGUEST
It's just black folks.
TezHOST
Yeah.
TezHOST
Let's talk about August Wilson.
TezHOST
You know, Augustine Wilson, right? August Wilson.
TezHOST
August Wilson.
TezHOST
Okay.
TezHOST
I can't butcher the greats.
Frankie DarcellGUEST
I mean, he's written some of the most prolific stage plays for black culture in America and a theater off Broadway named after him deservingly.
Frankie DarcellGUEST
And with a theater built just a couple of years ago that's doing extremely well in Pittsburgh.
BrettHOST
No.
BrettHOST
Have you seen him in Viola Davis in the adaptation of August Wilson's Fences?
JessHOST
No, we talked about how I hadn't seen this yet.
JessHOST
Oh, it's on.
Anthony ChaseHOST
And who do I run into in the lobby? Buffalo's Rosalind Ruff, who is in rehearsal for Seven Guitars at Lincoln Center.
Anthony ChaseHOST
She's one of the nation's foremost interpreters of the work of August Wilson.
Anthony ChaseHOST
And I say, oh, do you know Daniel? She said, no, I've not met him yet, but I'm a Tony nominator.
Anthony ChaseHOST
Wow.
GavinHOST
Okay, okay, with that, I'm just going to spoil a point here just because I want to talk about it.
GavinHOST
Paranormal Activity is going to play the Paranormal Activity movie outside the theater, outside the August Wilson on Halloween at 5 p.m. I'm so fascinated by how this is going to go.
GavinHOST
They were like, yeah, bring blankets and chairs and shit and set them up on the street.
GavinHOST
They're just going to close the
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