Background
This is Wilson’s hometown and the setting for most of his plays, and it is also where they filmed Dance Moms.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The film adaptation of this play earned Viola Davis an Oscar, named after this structure that encloses an area.
Fences
This Oscar-winning actress has been in many productions and film adaptations of August Wilson’s plays.
Viola Davis
Fourteen days after his death, this Broadway theatre was renamed in this playwright’s honor.
The August Wilson Theatre
August Wilson’s youngest daughter shares a name with this Avatar: The Last Airbender character.
Azula
Wilson’s biological father was from this European country whose capital is Berlin.
Germany
The Netflix adaptation of this August Wilson play served as Chadwick Boseman’s final project.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
This Falcon and The Winter Soldier actor played the stuttering Sylvester in the 2003 revival of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.
Anthony Mackie
In 1987, Wilson won this theatre accolade for his play Fences.
August Wilson’s second marriage ended this same year that the original IT miniseries premiered.
1990
Wilson attended and later dropped out of this type of school that is operated by a certain church.
Catholic school
This August Wilson play that has the name of a musical instrument in its title got a film adaptation in 1995.
The Piano Lesson
This Star Wars actor played Troy Maxson in the original production of Fences.
James Earl Jones
August Wilson has won this writing award twice for Fences and The Piano Lesson.
The Pulitzer Prize
Wilson died in this city where Grey’s Anatomy takes place.
Seattle
August Wilson dropped out of high school after being accused of this practice of stealing other people’s work.
Plagiarism
This obscure 1985 August Wilson play’s title is another word for custodian.
The Janitor
This actor played Boy Willie in a production of The Piano Lesson has also starred in many Quentin Tarantino films.
Samuel L. Jackson
Wilson has also won this theatre award twice for Fences and The Piano Lesson, named after this piece of furniture.
The Drama Desk Award
Wilson’s first wife shares a last name with this gothic filmmaker.
Tim Burton
The suburb to which Wilson moved to can be described with this acronym: P.W.I.
Predominantly White Institution
August Wilson’s cycle of his 10 best-known plays that is named after the author’s hometown.
The Pittsburgh Cycle
This Malcom X actor portrayed Troy Maxson in the revival and the film adaptation of Fences.
Denzel Washington
Wilson has also won this British theatre accolade for his play Jitney.
The Olivier Award
Wilson died in 2005 of a disease portrayed in the film My Sister’s Keeper.
Cancer