The American playwright – the author of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Fences,” “The Piano Lesson” and more — set almost all of his work in his hometown, writing about some of society’s most intractable problems through the lens of life in western Pennsylvania. Among the themes: racial injustice, mass incarceration, gentrification and more.
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The American playwright – the author of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Fences,” “The Piano Lesson” and more -- set almost all of his work in his hometown, writing about some of society’s most intractable problems through the lens of life in western Pennsylvania. Among the themes: racial injustice, mass incarceration, gentrification and more.