What turned high school drop-out Frederick August Kittel Jr. into the revered and consequential playwright August Wilson? That's the question at the heart of "August Wilson: A Life" (Simon and Schuster, 544 pages), billed as the first major biography of the playwright. Author Patti Hartigan, a former arts journalist at the Boston Globe, attempts to...
SOURCE: New York Theater at 10:07PM on August 22, 2023