Re: Horrible news

Doctors have given him three to five months to live. Playwright August
Wilson is 60.The shocking news comes just two months after
Off-Broadway's Signature Theatre?which devotes each season to the work
of a single playwright?announced it had decided to push back an August
Wilson line-up previously announced for 2005-06 to the 2006-07 season.
The season was also to feature Wilson's one-man show How I Learned What
I Learned, which he performs himself.
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SN: (Huge sigh.)
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With Radio Golf, now playing at the Center Theatre Group's Mark Taper
Forum through Sept. 18, Wilson completed his ten-play cycle, which
chronicles the African-American experience in the past century decade by
decade. The 1990s-set work involves real estate developers who look to
tear down the home of recurring Wilson character Aunt Esther.
The other plays in Wilson's grand undertaking (in order of decade which
the drama is set) include Gem of the Ocean, Joe Turner's Come and Gone,
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, The Piano Lesson, Seven Guitars, Fences, Two
Trains Running, Jitney and King Hedley II. All have played Broadway,
except for Jitney, which was an Off-Broadway hit. All of the Broadway
productions were nominated for a Tony Award for Best Plays. Fences won
the prize. Wilson has won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, for Fences and
The Piano Lesson.
"I'm glad I finished the cycle," Wilson told the Pittsburgh paper.
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SN: Me, too. And whatever happened to that film of FENCES? Eddie Murphy
has moved on to DREAMGIRLS?



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