New Award to Honor Producers of Full August Wilson Cycle
The August Wilson American Century Cycle Award celebrates theatres who have staged all 10 plays.
All Stories About August Wilson
The View From the Aisle Over ‘10,000 Nights’
Choice notes from an extraordinary theatregoing career, documenting trends and artists of the late 20th-century stage.
Ringside? Let’s Take Down the Ropes
Theatre ought to grow our moral imagination in a time of crisis. How do we get there—and who is ‘we’?
Poetry in Motion: August Wilson, Sonia Sanchez Inspire Two New Musicals
Poetry by two giants of the Black Arts Movement infuses ‘UniSon’ and ‘GIRL Shakes Loose.’
This Month in Theatre History
From the births of lighting designer Stanley McCandless and playwright Velina Hasu Houston to August Wilson’s last play, May was a memorable month for theatre.
#TCG16 Plenary 1: Standing Ground
An award for John O’Neal and a stirring keynote from Anna Deavere Smith began the conference at the intersection of civil rights and theatre.
The Ground on Which I Stand
African American theatre is distinct, distinguished, and fully deserving of the kind of funding and respect too often reserved for white culture and institutions.
Breaking ‘Ground’: How the Speech Came to Be and What It Set in Motion
In igniting fierce debates about casting, funding, and racial equity, August Wilson’s 1996 keynote anticipated many of the arguments we’re still having.
The Great Color-Consciousness Raiser
Why reprint a 20-year-old speech? Less to show how far we’ve come (or not) than to marvel at what a great artist still has to say to us now.
Offscript: Still Standing With Lou Bellamy and Jonathan McCrory
In this special edition of Offscript, we have a 10-minute audio recording of August Wilson delivering his seminal speech, ‘The Ground on Which I Stand,’ followed by a discussion among leaders of two black theatres, Penumbra’s Lou Bellamy and National Black Theatre’s Jonathan McCrory.