Tony-award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson, now directing the Broadway premiere of August Wilson’s Jitney, shares why Wilson’s work is so timeless and universal.
Features
Clip | The Essential Ingredients for an August Wilson Play
Clip | August Wilson and African American Culture
Clip | Phylicia Rashad in Gem of the Ocean
Classroom Resources: August Wilson
Clip | Costume Design for August Wilson’s Plays
Clip | August Wilson on Beginning with Dialogue
Clip | Filmmaker Interview with Sam Pollard
Clip | Behind the Scenes with James Earl Jones
Music in August Wilson’s Work
Clip | Panel Discussion with Phylicia Rashad, Moderated by Filmmaker Sam Pollard
Clip | August Wilson in Seattle
Clip | August Wilson’s Youth
August Wilson’s 10-play cycle: scenes and synopses
August Wilson biography and timeline
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
TRANSCRIPT
August Wilson's work will always speak to the Black community, African-American community, American community, today and always, because many of the problems that existed in the earlier plays continue to exist today. Not only that, it brings us closer - people who have not been privy to a certain culture which is my culture, African American culture - they get a chance to sit in the same room and breathe the same air, let our hearts beat together and find out that we are the same. We're just human beings and we want the same things.
