August Wilson, in case you're not a fan or happened to miss the obits in 2005, was a half-black, half-white American playwright who, in a scattershot way, attempted and completed one of the most ambitious projects in the history of American theater. That project was "The Pittsburgh Cycle," a series of ten plays exploring the lives of black Americans through each decade of the 20th Century (all but one of the plays was set in... More >>>