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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a "vivid and uplifting" (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary.

August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished... Read Full Overview

It is Pittsburgh, 1969. Memphis Lee's diner--and the rest of his block--is scheduled to be torn down, a casualty of the city's renovation project that is sweeping away the buildings of a community, but not its spirit. Memphis stands his ground, determined to make the city... Read Full Overview

Finalist 1992 Pulitzer Prize in Drama

This is the 1960s chapter of the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright's decade by decade saga of ordinary African Americans in this turbulent century. It takes place in Memphis Lee's coffee shop in a Pittsburgh neighborhood that is... Read Full Overview

Set during the civil rights movement, at the lunch counter of Memphis Lee's diner.