#August Wilson

[thechanelmuse]

Toni Morrison was 39 when she published her first book, The Bluest Eye. Zora Neale Hurston was 43. Maya Angelou was 41. Ralph Ellison was 39.

August Wilson was 34 when he wrote his first play, Jitney. 

 It's never too late to start...or start again.

#toni morrison #zora neale hurston #maya angelou #ralph ellison #august wilson

[cartermagazine]

Today In History

Playwright August Wilson is one of the most important voices in modern theater. He has won acclaim from literary and theater critics for his plays, which portray the African American experience in the twentieth century, one decade at a time.

Wilson won Pulitzer Prizes for two of them: Fences (1987), and The Piano Lesson on this date April 17, 1990.

He grew up in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, where he was surrounded by the sounds, sights and struggles of urban African American life that would later fuel his creative efforts. But Wilson’s appreciation for the culture in which he had grown up did not bloom fully until he moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in his early thirties. From that distance, he gained an appreciation of the richness of the culture and the language of the place where he had spent his youth.

“In the Hill District, I was surrounded by all this highly charged, poetic vernacular which was so much part and parcel of life that I didn’t pay any attention to it. But in moving to St. Paul and suddenly being removed from that environment and that language, I began to hear it for the first time and recognize its value,” he says.

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#august wilson #carter magazine #carter #historyandhiphop365 #wherehistoryandhiphopmeet #history #cartermagazine #today in history #staywoke #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

Last night after a performance of the thrilling new production of Cabaret we sang Happy Birthaday to the original Emcee Joel Grey who was there in the audience and celebrating his 92nd birthday. It was the kind of New York night you dream about with incredible New Yorkers everywhere you looked.(Yes that is John Kander). Won't ever forget it.

Thanks to https://www.instagram.com/p/C5qb1uiO747/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

#eddie redmayne cabaret #eddie redmayne #john kander #joel grey #new york #kit kat club #nyc #cabaret #august wilson #theatre #happy birthday joel grey #the emcee #the original emcee #cabaret new production #eddieredmayneedit #*

[eddieredmayneargentinablog]

Willkommen! Anna Wintour and Zoë Kravitz Host a Starry Preview Performance of Cabaret.

BY MARLEY MARIUS April 17, 2024.

📷 by Jenny Anderson

#eddie redmayne #eddieredmayne #redmayne #cabaret 2024 #zoe kravitz #august wilson #party #vogue magazine #anna wintour

[davidhudson]

August Wilson, April 27, 1945 – October 2, 2005.

#august wilson #theater #playwriting

[iseetheworldinmetaphor]

"I happen to think that the content of my mother's life—her myths, her superstitions, her prayers, the contents of her pantry, the smell of her kitchen…are all worthy of art." — August Wilson

#august wilson #artist quotes #my creative philosophy #this #art

[notchainedtotrauma]

i thought at least in my house. i thought at least in my house i could make everything right. i could make everything clean. i could make everything bright. at least in my house. but even in my house there was night.

from Dub: Finding Ceremony by Alexis Pauline Dumbs

Viola Davis as Rose Maxson, Denzel Washington as Troy Maxson, and Stephen McKinley Henderson as Jim Bono in Fences directed by Denzel Washington and adapted from the August Wilson's play and photographed by Charlotte Bruss Christensen

Nicole Beharie as Theo Parker in Striking Vipers (Black Mirror) directed by Owen Harris

#Viola Davis #Rose Maxson #Denzel Washington #Troy Maxson #Stephen McKinley Henderson #Jim Bono #August Wilson #Charlotte Bruss Christensen #Alexis Pauline Gumbs #Nicole Beharie #Theo Parker #Owen Harris

[do-you-know-this-play]

#ma rainey's black bottom #august wilson #theater #theatre #plays #tumblr polls

[misterjt]

Kendrick Lamar's West Side Rallying Cry

On my 20th spin of Not Like Us, I figured out why Kendrick Lamar‘s latest is so electrifying. The last time LA hip hop was up was Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap at the GRAMMYs in February of 2019. His death a couple of months later, followed by Kobe Bryant, his daughter, and several others less than a year later, turned the city and the music melancholy and insular. The pandemic would soon follow,…

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#august wilson #books #hip hop #kendrick lamar #Los Angeles #music

[reiningsoral]

fences is such a gorgeous play. it's so well written there's foreshadowing everywhere. the themes and motifs play so well that you dont think anything of them until it's too late. the narrative pieces and stage directions even have a part in telling the story in a way ive never seen another play do.

the ending is a genuinely so beautiful scene, i can only hope to ever achieve to evoke such an emotion with my writing.

if you havent, you should take the time to read Fences by August Wilson, i promise it's worth it

#fences #august wilson #stage play #word vomit

[agentem]

2023: The Year that Should Have Been Samuel L. Jackson's

Anyone who follows my blog knows I really like Samuel L. Jackson. I don't know him personally or anything. I just think he seems fun. I like how he says he makes the kinds of movies he would want to see as a kid (and isn't precious about the ~art~ of acting). Brie Larson also said some things in the Captain Marvel press tour about how confident he is, and now sometimes I think "Pretend you are Samuel L. Jackson" when I feel anxious in a work situation.

Some other things I like about him:

He was expelled from Morehouse College for his acts of civil disobedience. Though I can't say I support some of his later criminal acts or drug use.

I enjoy the random fun fact that he was an usher at Martin Luther King Jr's funeral.

Unlike a lot of the MCU actors, SLJ reads comics. He was the one who saw his face in The Ultimates and was like, "Uh. WTF, Marvel?" just because he happened to read it. (Companies are not allowed to use an individual's likeness without their consent, he could have sued Marvel, instead he made a deal for them to put him in movies if they made them.)

Regarding the above, I think a lot is said about how Feige and Favreau were such visionaries to create the MCU. And obviously they did the work. But I think SLJ saw it even earlier. (Ultimates came out in 2002, six years before Iron Man would happen and the deal he made would pan out.)

I know SLJ has made some bad movies. Some are fun bad. Some are just bad. But he has a way of making even the worst dialogue interesting. (IDK. I saw a teen spy movie he was in with Hailee Steinfeld and Sophie Turner. They are both actresses that I like, but any scene he wasn't in was kind of boring. And I was like, "Whoa how did you make me pay attention; I was falling asleep?")

Wow this post is long and I haven't even gotten to the point.

The point is that Secret Invasion should have been his moment to shine in the MCU. He never led a project before. And it's being called the worst thing ever. But it's so frustrating that it was so bad with the caliber of actors they had. It should not have been this way.

To add insult to injury, Jackson finally got to perform August Wilson's The Piano Lesson on Broadway.

Jackson was part of the original cast of that play, working with the celebrated playwright himself... at Yale Repertory Theater. When it came time to move the play to Broadway, Charles S. Dutton replaced him.

So last year a Broadway revival was staged. It was directed by his wife, LaTonya Richardson Jackson. Now Jackson played the older man, and his friend Denzel's son, John David Washington, played the role Jackson had originated.

Jackson was nominated for a Tony. But didn't win. The internet made fun of his reaction to the results being read.

I just feel like, I'd have been bummed too. He didn't slap anybody or complain about losing. He was gracious.

I keep thinking about what could have been. He's 74 years old (doesn't look it, imo), but he won't be around forever. I want him to be appreciated in his lifetime.

And goddamnit I am still mad they didn't air his Lifetime Achievement Oscar speech.

#fuck i should go to bed #samuel l. jackson #nick fury #slj #samuel l jackson #august wilson #the piano lesson #secret invasion #the marvels #the ultimates

[junior-stargazer-goke91]

Fences (2016)

Director: Denzel Washington

Cinematographer: Charlotte Bruus Christensen

#denzel washington #viola davis #stephen mckinley henderson #jovan adepo #august wilson #fences 2016 #black films #black movies #black cinema

[afrotumble]

#august wilson #film #giving voice #viola davis #john legend #Youtube

[eddie-redmayne-italian-blog]

New!! First look at Eddie Redmayne as Emcee and the Kit Kat ensemble on Broadway!!

Marc Brenner on IG First look: my production shots out for #Cabaret @kitkatclubnyc Here’s Eddie Redmayne as Emcee. You’d be hard pressed to find someone who is such a pleasure to work with. True gentleman. It’s directed by Rebecca Frecknall, designed by @tomscuttdesign choreographed by @juliachenghoa lit by @isabelllaa #marcbrennerphotography #theatrephotography #theatrephotographer #newyork #broadway #musical #musicaltheater ©️ Marc Brenner

Photographer Mark Brenner https://www.instagram.com/p/C5yzZ0rIdzO/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

#eddie redmayne #eddie redmayne cabaret #cabaret new production #the emcee #nyc #august wilson #theatre #broadway #marc brenner #photographer #news #new photos #eddieredmayneedit

[eddieredmayneargentinablog]

New! Cabaret at the kit kat Club NYC> Sunday Morning CBS' new interview upcoming !

📷 Credit: Sunday Morning on CBS News Producer Jay Kernis on Facebook : "If all goes well, on this week’s Sunday Morning Mo Rocca looks at the enduring popularity of the John Kander/Fred Ebb musical "Cabaret," from its debut in 1966 and the Oscar-winning Bob Fosse film, to the latest revival on Broadway, in a production titled "Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club." Correspondent Mo talks with actors Eddie Redmayne (who plays the Emcee), Gayle Rankin (Sally Bowles) and Bebe Neuwirth (Fraulein Schneider), and with designer Tom Scutt, about their goal of immersing the audience in the story".

#eddie redmayne #eddieredmayne #redmayne #cabaret 2024 #gayle rankin #bebe neuwirth #august wilson #mo rocca #sunday morning #cbs news

[steaminghotmessofcringe]

there's something so incredibly tragic about how gabriel was the person who fully supported troy in spite of his actions from early on in the play and fully believed him to be a good person. all while gabriel was also the person troy felt he betrayed and exploited and hence felt so intensely guilt about. his younger brother that he failed to protect and care for still thinks hes the best older brother he could ever have.

#fences #august wilson #literature #theatre #it hurts to think about