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Article: Curtain goes up on theater honoring Wilson.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- October 17, 2005
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Byline: Claude Peck; Staff Writer
New York, N.Y. -- The high-school dropout who wrote his celebrated plays in longhand on yellow paper now has his handwritten signature permanently emblazoned in white neon atop the marquee of a theater on Broadway.
The August Wilson Theater was unveiled Sunday night at the 52nd Street theater formerly known as the Virginia, just two weeks after Wilson died at age 60.
Wilson lived in St. Paul from 1978 to 1990, a period in which he wrote some of his best-known plays, including the Tony-winning "Fences" and the Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Piano Lesson."
Many of the actors ...
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