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36 archive results
#8216, aired 2020-05-18 PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Frederick August Kittel was the given name of this "Fences" playwright
#8040, aired 2019-07-19 AFRICAN-AMERICAN AUTHORS $1600: His plays "The Piano Lesson" & "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" are both set in Pittsburgh
#7893, aired 2018-12-26 "W"RITERS $1200: This playwright hit a homer with "Fences", which won him a Pulitzer
#7817, aired 2018-09-11 BROADWAY REPLACEMENTS $1200: The "monthly" Tracy Letts Pulitzer Prize winner was replaced by his own play "Superior Donuts"
#7617, aired 2017-10-24 THE PLAY'S THE THING $2000: We would attend this playwright's "Seven Guitars", about a 1940s blues musician, any month of the year
#7354, aired 2016-07-28 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $400: August Wilson chronicled the Black experience in his cycle of plays set in the Hill District of this Pennsylvania city
#7083, aired 2015-06-03 THE TONY AWARDS $800: This drama by August Wilson won for best revival of a play in 2010; stars Denzel Washington & Viola Davis also won
#6622, aired 2013-06-04 FLAVOR OF THE MONTH $2000: In 1987 this African-American playwright swung for the "Fences" & won a Pulitzer
#6051, aired 2010-12-27 PLAY PENNERS $2000: This playwright with a "monthly" name is the only Af.-Amer, dramatist to have a Broadway theatre named in his honor
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1600: He wrote a 10-play cycle of the black experience, each covering a decade; "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" was set in the '20s
#5852, aired 2010-02-09 AFRICAN AMERICANS $2000: He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for his play "Fences" & another for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990
#5838, aired 2010-01-20 FAMILY DRAMA $2000: In an August Wilson play, Troy Maxson builds these title structures around the family home
#5446, aired 2008-04-21 THEATRE $1600: In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson"
#5320, aired 2007-10-26 THEATRE HISTORY $2000: "Radio Golf" is the last play in this "Fences" author's 10-play cycle about the African-American experience
#5288, aired 2007-09-12 AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: Pittsburgh's African American Cultural Center was renamed for this "Piano Lesson" author who was born in Pittsburgh
#4986, aired 2006-04-24 AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE $2000: In the title of the late August Wilson's Tony-nominated play, this man's "Come and Gone"
#4565, aired 2004-06-11 AFRICAN-AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This playwright of "Fences" & "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" founded Pittsburgh's Black Horizon Theatre Company
#4437, aired 2003-12-16 NAME THE PLAYWRIGHT $2000: "The Piano Lesson"
#4418, aired 2003-11-19 IT OPENED IN NEW HAVEN $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, CT) His play "Fences" was originally staged here at Yale Rep. It moved to Broadway and won him his first Pulitzer Prize
#4335, aired 2003-06-06 PLAYWRIGHTS $800: "May All Your Fences Have Gates" is a book of "Essays on the Drama of" this African-American playwright
#4300, aired 2003-04-18 REGIONAL THEATRE $2000: "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" by this playwright first came & went with the Yale Repertory
#4232, aired 2003-01-14 AMERICAN DRAMATISTS $1200: His first major work, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", received a 1985 N.Y. Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play
#4138, aired 2002-09-04 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME $2000: There's plenty to learn from this 1995 presentation seen here, written & produced by August Wilson "You're always talkin' about your daddy, but you ain't never stopped to look at what his foolishness cost your mama."
#3739, aired 2000-11-30 HEY MR. WILSON! $1000: Many of his plays, including "Joe Turner's Come & Gone", are set in Pittsburgh, where he was born
#3706, aired 2000-10-16 THEATRE $500: (Hi, I'm S. Epatha Merkerson.) I won a Tony nomination for playing Berneice in this playwright's 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "The Piano Lesson"
#3290, aired 1998-12-18 PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $200: Lanford Wilson won a Pulitzer for "Talley's Folly" in 1980 & this Wilson won for "The Piano Lesson" in 1990
#3281, aired 1998-12-07 AFRICAN-AMERICAN WRITERS $400: In 1997 this "Fences" playwright debated the state of black theater with critic Robert Brustein
#3126, aired 1998-03-16 PLAY TIME $1000: In this author's "Fences" Troy Maxson complains that black men don't get to drive garbage trucks
#2943, aired 1997-05-21 PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This author of "The Piano Lesson" founded the Black Horizons Theatre Company in 1968
#2781, aired 1996-10-07 REGIONAL THEATRES $200: Many of August Wilson's plays have been produced by this college's Repertory Theatre in New Haven
#2767, aired 1996-09-17 BLACK AMERICANS $1000: "Seven Guitars" is the seventh in a series of dramas by this "Piano Lesson" playwright
#2533, aired 1995-09-13 HALLMARK HALL OF FAME $800: His first play on the big or small screen was 1995's Hall of Fame production of "The Piano Lesson"
#2120, aired 1993-11-19 DRAMA $800: A brother & sister argue over the fate of a piano in this Pulitzer-winning play by August Wilson
#1955, aired 1993-02-19 HODGEPODGE $800: This playwright who wrote "The Piano Lesson" was born in April but has another month in his name
#1784, aired 1992-05-07 THEATRE $800 (Daily Double): In 1990 this playwright won his second Pulitzer Prize, for "The Piano Lesson"
Final Jeopardy! Round clues (2 results returned)
#8336, aired 2021-02-15 PLAYWRIGHTS: This late writer has had 10 plays on Broadway, most of them set in Pittsburgh like "Jitney", which premiered in 2017
#5014, aired 2006-06-01 PLAYWRIGHTS: In 2005 Broadway's Virginia Theatre was renamed to honor this late author, the first African-American so honored