During this time when productions all over the world have been put on pause, we are coming together to celebrate plays that have left their mark on theater history. This week we will be focu…
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's play, set in an unlicensed cab station in Pittsburgh's Hill District in the 1970s, is being told at the Seattle Rep for the first time since 20…
Tonight, at a celebration honoring theatre excellence on stages across the Washington area, theatre artists, administrators, patrons, and special guests gathered in the National Theatre's He…
Only 34 at the time that he wrote his first play, Jitney, August Wilson may or may not have known just how the emotion-driven syncopation of his language " haunting and lyrical, yet searingl…
By Jordan Ealey, Leticia Ridley. On this episode of the Daughters of Lorraine Podcast, Jordan Ealey and Leticia Ridley review Arena Stage's production of August Wilson's Jitney, …
SOURCE: HowlRound at 9:00am on November 25, 2019☆⚑
JUMP FOR JITNEY It is an incontestable fact that every play August Wilson wrote justifies being looked at again and again. It has been fascinating to see how the moral, political and emotion…
Director Ruben Santiago-Hudson's restaging of his 2017 Broadway production of Jitney at Arena Stage"bringing to town much of the design team and several of the actors"is a terrific kickoff t…
When the opening moments of a play are a super loud blast of bluesy music and a checkers game on the verge of anarchy, you know you are in for a lively ride. But it was the acting in Jitney,…
"Many audiences haven't seen August Wilson's plays done well, so my mission is to go out and do the plays well the way the author intended. The celebration of African American life and the w…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 1:36pm on September 18, 2019☆⚑
Perhaps it is his distinctive voice or the fact that he has been called the "best storyteller of his generation" that makes Ruben Santiago-Hudson the apparent inheritor of the body of work p…
Keith Randolph Smith is a member of the cast of August Wilson's Jitney, now in rehearsal, and opening this Fall at Arena Stage. He plays Doub, one of the drivers for the eponymous jitney in …
