08-01-2017 06:09 via topix.com

August Wilson's Pittsburgh

Denzel Washington's filming of "Fences," the Pulitzer-Prize winning play by August Wilson, has once again put Pittsburgh on the cultural map. As well it should, for this tale of Troy Maxson, a frustrated, deeply flawed garbage man, and Rose, his understanding, near-perfect wife, has universal resonance but is grounded in the history of Pittsburgh and Mr. Wilson.
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