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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/beck-center-presents-august-wilsons-t
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SUMMARY:Beck Center Presents August Wilson's "Two Trains Running"
DESCRIPTION:\nFri 2/27-Sun 3/29\nAugust Wilson (1945-2005) was one of the A
 merica’s greatest playwrights\, a man who made poetry out of the experie
 nces of ordinary working people\, particularly the residents of his own Bl
 ack Pittsburgh community. His ten-play Pittsburgh cycle was his crowning a
 chievement with a play for each decade of the 20th century\, all but one s
 et in his native city. Written between 1982 and 2005\, all ten were perfor
 med on Broadway.\nTwo Trains Running\, which takes place in the 1968s\, pr
 emiered in 1990. (The plays were not written in chronological order.) Its 
 story\, while set in Pittsburgh\, could have occurred in many northern cit
 ies as a Black restaurant owner in a changing neighborhood deals with the 
 takeover and demolishing of his property by the city in an era when redlin
 ing and blockbusting met urban renewal and gentrification to the detriment
  of a Black population unsettled by the Civic Rights Movement devolving in
 to urban riots by the end of the 60s. Like most of his plays\, it looks at
  such epochal forces through the eyes of people impacted on the ground lev
 el. The play was nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Drama.\nThe Bec
 k Center will be opening its very of the play this weekend\, directed by n
 oted local director Jimmie Woody\, in its Studio Theater. It will run Frid
 ays and Saturdays @ 7:30pm and Sundays @ 2:30pm through March 29. Go here 
 for tickets.\nbeckcenter.org/theater/two-trains-running\n[mappress mapid="
 576"]
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