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“Fences,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Piano Lesson” are just three of the classic plays written by the late legendary playwright August Wilson.
His body of work on the 20th Century African-American experience has earned Wilson a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Besides “Fences,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and the “The Piano Lesson,” the other seven plays in the cycle are “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” “Seven Guitars,” “Gem of the Ocean,” “Two Trains Running,” “King Hedley,” “Radio Golf” and “Jitney.”
Wilson, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, set nine of the plays in Pittsburgh’s Hill District, while “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is set in Chicago.
Some of the other Hollywood Walk of Fame honorees include Don Cheadle, Morris Chestnut, Nick Cannon, Missy Elliott, Salt-N-Pepa, and Jazz legend Charlie Parker.
