Lloyd Richards, the dean of Yale School of Drama, received a package in the mail in December 1984 containing a typed draft script of “Fences,” a play by August Wilson that would premiere at Yale ...

2010 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play Chris Chalk, 2010 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play Viola Davis 2010 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Music in a Play ...

It took about the same amount of time to get August Wilson’s play Fences to the silver screen, as the late playwright insisted, when he sold the film rights in 1986 that the movie be directed by an ...

Denzel Washington and Viola Davis are emerging as frontrunners in this year's Oscar acting races with Fences, a new drama Washington also directed. The film, which tells the story of an African ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Center Theatre Group will stage a production of August Wilson's "Fences" at the Mark Taper Forum in 2027. Pictured is a 2006 ...

I have seen several productions of August Wilson’s play “Fences.” Usually I leave the theater simply admiring the work and the writing. Leaving the production of “Fences,” playing at Shakespeare & ...

August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fences, is one of unwieldy power and prose, telling the story of a black man living in 1950s America, struggling with the continually changing race ...

You don’t get groundbreaking cinema from “Fences,” but what you do get — two titanic performances and an immeasurable American drama — makes up for that. The film is perilously close to filmed theater ...