I never think about putting my stamp on anything, ... If someone watches a play and they don't see the hand of the director in it, if it's seamless and seems effortless, then I will have achieved what I'm after. I want folks to sit and hear August's music.
Quotes about augusts (10 Quotes)
Every time a sentence about great American writers is written, it will include August's name, ... He defined the Yale Rep's relationship to groundbreaking American theater.
Despite the sharp jump in prices, August's data do not change the picture of a strong downward trend in the annual rate of house price inflation,
Lloyd Richards, the former dean and artistic director of the Yale University Repertory Theatre, became Wilson's early champion. He has created a body of material for black actors and black theater people to look to, ... There has been a lack of material on the library shelves on black theater and a lack of theater by blacks. . . . Having August's body of work in there leads people to an examination of theater and an examination of themselves in theater.
One of the things I'm proudest of in my career is producing so much of August's work here. I'm going to believe that since August is such feisty guy, he'll meet this health challenge like he's met the challenge of writing an extraordinary cultural history.
Retail sales were significantly healthier than expected in September and August's sales were revised up, going a long way to killing off already fading hopes of a November interest rate cut,
The simple beauty of August's words struck me profoundly. The lines just seemed to have a life of their own leading me along as I read it.
I left thinking August's lost his mind, ... When I read 'The Piano Lesson,' I realized it encompassed the entire African-American experience. August Wilson's legacy is as important as Martin Luther King's legacy, as important as Malcolm X's legacy and as important as Nat Turner.
The theaters are . . . a business. If August's plays weren't out there for all these theaters to jump on, they wouldn't have done it at all.
August's accomplishments are unsurpassed - to me, the only writer to come close is Shakespeare, ... He has been the epitome of American theater for the last 23 years. He's defined it. His plays not only serve an artistic purpose, but they also serve a social purpose because they look at ourselves as Americans.