The Pittsburgh Cycle
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The Pittsburgh Cycle is a cycle of ten plays written by August Wilson. Also known as The American Century Cycle, each of the ten plays is set with a predominantly black cast in a different decade of t
Blues singer Ma Rainey (center) with her band in 1923
Argentine short story writer Jorge Luis Borges in 1951
Artist Romare Bearden (right) with his painting "Cotton Widows" and cousin Charles Alston (left) in 1944
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Fences (play)
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Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle". Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolv
