Playwright August Wilson’s Broadway Legacy Topped With a Posthumous Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

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Gordon Cox Theater Editor On Jan. 7, August Wilson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame — a fitting tribute for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is one of the most celebrated and important American storytellers of the last 50 years.

But there’s a touch of irony to that Hollywood setting because in his daily life, the late Wilson wasn’t much of movie guy. “We did love to sit back on our couch and watch thrillers sometimes and, of course, he especially liked Meryl Streep,” remembers Constanza Romero, Wilson’s widow and the executor of his estate. “He really liked a lot of the earlier movies by Black filmmakers, and films with music and Black talent.

But it’s true that he was never really in the world of film.” Between 1980 and 1991, Wilson saw just two movies, according to a 2001 article in the New Yorker.

Yet the influence of Wilson’s epic masterwork, “The American Century Cycle,” extends across genres. The groundbreaking series of 10 plays, each taking place in a different decade of the 20th century and most of them set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, depicts Black lives with complexity, dignity and a tinge of magical realism.