Actors’ Shakespeare Project

Over the course of his career, playwright August Wilson produced a repertoire examining the condition of Black America. His plays have become canon in the arts world, with some of them going beyond the stage, like his 1985 “Fences,” brought to the big screen by Denzel Washington and Viola Davis in the 2016 award-winning film.

King Hedley II returns from a prison sentence in 1985 to find his Pittsburgh community in crisis, burdened with violence, the effects of redlining and the unfulfilled promises of Reagan economics.