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Black Theater Triumphant: A Dynamic Duo From the Yale Repertory |
| Section: THE ARTS / THEATER |
| Author: Tom Killen |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 1,759 Words, 10,146 Characters |
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August Wilson, Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning playwright whose Fences was the first serious play in many a season on Broadway, is one of the most important writers for the stage to appear in years.
Lloyd Richards, onetime actor turned director, left a successful Broadway career to become dean of the Yale Drama School and artistic director of the Yale Repertory Company.
As a team, the two men have had a symbiotic professional relationship that seems largely responsible for Wilson's impressive dramatic output.
Wilson's newest work, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, which opened at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage this fall before heading to San Diego's Old Globe Theater and then probably New York, is merely the latest collaborative effort between the two men.
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Last spring, Fences entered the record books as the first play in thirty years to capture of all of the major theatrical awards--including the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and awards from the New York Drama Critic...
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What would have happened if August had not emerged at a time when I felt his need and his potential?" he asks. "My God, if August had come along five years earlier, I wouldn't have been at the Yale Rep. I wouldn't have had a theater in which to create. I don't know what would have happened. He may have done better for all I know. But things would certainly have been different."
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