August Wilson’s American Century Cycle

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson masterfully documented a full century of the African-American experience in the 10 plays the make up the American Century Cycle. These works, nine of which have been staged on Broadway with stars including Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Charles Dutton, among many others, showed the suffering, joys, and triumphs of African-Americans through searing, poetic and personal stories of everyday people in Pittsburgh, PA.

For the very first time, the Estate of August Wilson has granted an organization the rights to record all 10 of these works. The Greene Space – the performance venue of public radio stations WNYC and WQXR — will stage these readings before live audiences, and will make them present them as live video webcasts for viewers everywhere.