The Quiz: What playwright wrote a 10-play series called “the Pittsburgh Cycle”?
August Wilson
Arthur Miller
Tracy Letts
David
August Wilson’s “Pittsburgh Cycle,” also called “the American Century Cycle,” is a collection of 10 plays, each taking place in a different decade of the 20th century. All but one of the plays takes place in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood, where Wilson grew up, and although there’s no real through line linking the plots of the various plays, there are recurring characters. Actor Denzel Washington has said he plans to produce film versions of all 10 of the plays, starting with “Fences” (2016) and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” (2020).
The correct answer to this quiz is August Wilson.