The actor and director Ruben Santiago-Hudson spent 11 years pushing, prodding and cajoling theater owners to let him bring Jitney to Broadway. It was the first in what would become August Wilson’s magnificent, 10-play cycle – one for each decade – about the lives of African-Americans, mostly in a black enclave of Pittsburgh. And until this just-ended season, Jitney was the only work in the 10 that h…
SOURCE: Deadline at 01:51PM on June 2, 2017