King Hedley II
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Mar 11, 2007
Closed Apr 22, 2007
Opened Mar 11, 2007
Closed Apr 22, 2007
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Derrick Sanders directs August Wilson's King Hedley II as part of Signature's August Wilson Series.
Set in a backyard in the decaying Hill District of Pittsburgh, King Hedley II follows the characters created by August Wilson in Seven Guitars. A woman is tormented by a secret she has kept for 36 years, while her only son returns home after serving time for murder to find a neighborhood riddled with crime, poverty and broken families. King's epic struggle to survive is at the center of this poetic portrayal of life in the inner city during the 1980's.
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Signature Center
480 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Designed by Frank Gehry for the Signature Theatre, Signature Center features three intimate theatres connected by a lobby with café, bar and bookstore, a studio theatre, a rehearsal studio and the Company's administrative offices.
480 West 42nd Street
New York, NY 10036
Designed by Frank Gehry for the Signature Theatre, Signature Center features three intimate theatres connected by a lobby with café, bar and bookstore, a studio theatre, a rehearsal studio and the Company's administrative offices.
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After an artist dies, there's usually a rush to reassess his or her work. In the instance of August Wilson -- who succumbed in October 2005 -- the opportunity to review the output has been made somewhat easier by the Signature Theatre Company, which had long planned a Wilson season. But there'll be no reassessing from me of the third and final play in Signature's season, King Hedley II. Six years after it bowed on Broadway, Wilson's tragedy strikes me as having the same strengths and weaknesses I thought it had back then.
In reviewing that production for TheaterMania, I wrote: "While Wilson may have had big ideas about how he wanted to frame his latest work, he didn't really have a clear [...]