'Fences' To Receive Broadway Revival This Fall

The New York Times is reporting that August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize winning play Fences will receive a Broadway revival this fall at an unknown theater. The production would be directed by Susan Lori-Parks who up until this point has ever worked on Broadway when her own play Topdog/Underdog had a run. 

According to the Times, "Ms. Hays said the idea came up in April 2005 when she was having dinner with Wilson on the night that "Radio Golf" opened at the Yale Repertory Theater. "It turned out it was his 60th birthday," she said, "and we started talking about time and history. It sort of just occurred to him. He popped the question: 'Do you want to do 'Fences'? That turned out to be the last time she saw him; he died later that year. But after his death Ms. Hays began speaking with his widow, Constanza Romero, about a revival."

Wilson's literary legacy is a cycle of ten plays—two of which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama—dubbed "The Pittsburgh Cycle". Each is set in a different decade, depicting the comedy and tragedy of the African-American experience in the 20th century. Fences presents the 1950's, centered upon an infidelity and one man's quest for control over his family. The original Broadway cast included Mary Alice and James Earl Jones. 

As of now casting and exact dates have not been set.

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