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August Wilson Plays

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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright August Wilson’s final work portrays a young African-American community organizer with big political plans. It’s now showing at Mountain View’s TheatreWorks. We discuss that work, and Wilson’s earlier “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” opening next month at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Guests:

Harry Elam, Olive H. Palmer professor of the humanities and director of "Radio Golf" at Stanford University

Aldo Billingslea, associate professor of acting and multicultural theater at Santa Clara University

Delroy Lindo, actor and director of Berkeley Rep's, "Joe Turner's Come and Gone"

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