Black Rep’s vivid storytelling restores legacy of August Wilson’s final play

Black Rep’s vivid storytelling restores legacy of August Wilson’s final play

In April of 2005, the play “Radio Golf” made its world premiere on the Yale Repstage. Two months later, the author – Pulitzer Prize-winner August Wilson – wasdiagnosed with an aggressive form of liver cancer.The play rounded out Wilson’s “century cycle,” which depicted Black life in 1900sAmerica. Like “Radio Golf,” most of the plays were set in his hometown ofPittsburgh. It took place in 1997, the last decade before the new millennium. Asfate wo…