AMERICAN THEATRE

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of Los Angeles’s Music Center, chatting and smoking with the greatest of American playwrights, August Wilson, for an interview for . A key theme emerged as we spoke, as it did throughout his work and in his iconic speech at Theatre Communications Group’s 1996 conference, “The Ground on Which I Stand”: Black life in the U.S. is sufficient unto itself by every

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