2017 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Costume Design for a Play Toni-Leslie James 2017 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Director of a Play Ruben Santiago-Hudson 2017 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Music in a ...
LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Northeast Ohio actor-director Jimmie Woody has a deep history with August Wilson’s first play, “Jitney.” For more than 20 years, he’s been dreaming about directing the award-winning ...
The summer season at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre is populated with works with substantial name recognition — iconic Broadway musical “Hello, Dolly!,” popular movie-musical-turned-stage-musical ...
Aaron Smith (from left), Victor Musoni, Steve H. Broadnax III, Robert Cornelius and Anthony Irons play independent drivers in "Jitney" at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. (Special to the ...
When death comes, between scenes, in August Wilson’s Jitney, it comes quickly and arbitrarily. No dramatic contrivance is wasted on it, no character is clearly marked for it. It just happens. The fact ...
2002 Olivier Award, "The BBC Award for the Best New Play" awarded to the August Wilson play "Jitney." The brushed bronze colored award features a square base with a rectangular pillar and Laurence ...
Written in 1979 and first staged in 1982, the eighth play in Wilson's Pittsburgh cycle has never been performed before on Broadway. It collects the stories of these men at all stages of life who ...