Few Pittsburgh-born artists have had as great an impact on their fields as did playwright August Wilson, who won the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes for drama in 1987 and died in 2005. Yet until last week, there was been no single site in his hometown where visitors and other fans could go to absorb the breadth of his legacy as a chronicler of the Black American experience through his monumental, 10-play American Century Cycle.

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Few Pittsburgh-born artists have had as great an impact on their fields as did playwright August Wilson, who won the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes for drama in 1987 and died in 2005. Yet until last week, there was been no single site in his hometown where visitors and other fans could go to absorb the breadth of his legacy as a chronicler of the Black American experience through his monumental, 10-play American Century Cycle.