August Wilson has liver cancer

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You are so very welcome.

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Originally Posted by charliekilothree

NEW YORK - Playwright August Wilson, whose epic 10-play cycle chronicling the black experience in 20th-century America included such landmark dramas as “Fences” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” died Sunday of liver cancer, a family spokeswoman said. He was 60.

I didn't get the news until yesterday on the way back to the US, I picked up a copy of Newsweek International.

Liver cancer doesn't play. He thought he had time to finish more plays, but his time was very short. May he rest in peace.

My first exposure to August Wilson was when my son, the actor, starred in a college production of "Fences" at NC Central. The theater department produced many August Wilson plays.

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Broadway Theater Named for August Wilson
2005-10-17
Associated Press/AP Online

By MICHAEL KUCHWARA

NEW YORK - With cheers, applause, a few stories and song, Broadway's August Wilson Theatre was dedicated Sunday, two weeks after the playwright died of liver cancer.

Constanza Romero, Wilson's widow, and his younger daughter, Azula, held a giant pair of scissors that snipped a red ribbon and lit up the marquee of the West 52nd Street theater that previously had been known as the Virginia.

"We have put up something that will never close," said Rocco Landesman, president of Jujamcyn Theaters, which owns the playhouse and produced five of Wilson's plays on Broadway.

Before the lighting, during a brief program inside the theater, Wilson's older daughter, Sakina Ansari, read Wilson's thoughts on hearing a Broadway theater would be named for him.

"I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things," wrote Wilson, author of such plays as "Fences," "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "The Piano Lesson."

"I have imagined a wife and two beautiful daughters, and I have imagined a sustained career for myself in the theater. But not in my wildest imagination could I have ever imagined this.

"This is the cap stone of my entire career and the cap stone end to my spirit, to my being and the end to the measure and meaning of my life." read more

http://www.blackenterprise.com/yb/yb...enterprise&p=0