Fences By August Wilson
February 8 - March 17, 2013
“GORGEOUS. THRILLING. UNMISSABLE.” - New Yorker“A blockbuster and a major American play." - New York Daily News
“I wasn't just moved. I was transfixed." - The New York Post
Pulitzer and Tony Awards
Powerful, poetic and Pulitzer winning, August Wilson’s “Fences” is a masterpiece portrait of an African-American family hanging on to their souls and their dreams in a world that has tried to crush both. By 1957, Troy Maxson was washed up. Once a great star in the Negro baseball leagues, his career was strangled by racism. Now a garbage collector in Pittsburgh, he has scraped together a life, a family and a place for which he can be proud. But, at the dawn of the Civil Rights era, forces are at work that threaten to rip apart everything he’s struggled to build. Filled with humor, compassion and sheer joy – not to mention some of the most majestic writing you’ll ever see - “Fences” opens the Stage 3 season with a thunderclap.
