#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.

CARTER™️ Magazine

#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

[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

[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

[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

[do-you-know-this-play]

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

[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

[power-chords]

It was SO FUCKING GOOD.

#theater diaries #the piano lesson #august wilson

[angryblackaries]

"I once wrote a short story called 'The Best Blues Singer in the World' and it went like this: 'The streets that Balboa walked were his own private ocean, and Balboa was drowning.' End of story. That says it all. Nothing else to say. I've been rewriting that same story over and over again. All my plays are rewriting that same story. I'm not sure what it means, other than life is hard."

—August Wilson

#August wilson

[lesbiancosimaniehaus]

Crazy to me that The Piano Lesson hasn’t been highlighted as much as it ought to have been. Very interesting play, very very thought-provoking story, excellent cast, excellent staging. I think part of me wishes there had been subtitles because there is a lot of quick wit that I missed because people were laughing, or because John David Washington was going a mile a minute (he was excellent, though). Danielle Brooks was a true standout, and Samuel L. Jackson I think really knows when to step back and blend in.

#the piano lesson #august wilson #my only gripe was the end scene #people have got to stop using bad projections like that #everyone is using them but not well 99% of the time

[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

[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

[wintersangels69]

August Wilson- Fences / Franz Kafka- Letter to My Father

#August Wilson #Franz Kafka #fences #letter to my father #the oppressive shadow of the parent #the ghost of the house that lives inside #I was too lazy to go back into the text and search for the passages so I used quote websites lmaooookkkkk it is what it is