How I Learned What I Learned

As the most produced and influential Black American playwright of the 20th century, August Wilson’s momentous body of work includes such masterpieces as Fences, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Piano Lesson. The late author is the subject, not the scribe, of this biographical one-man show. Miami’s Robert Strain portrays Wilson on the playwright’s remarkable ascent from Pittsburgh’s Hill District, where he wrote his first poems, to his remarkable career and the love, music and racial consciousness that informed his titanic works. Sept. 29–Oct. 22; various show times; $35–$65