As a movie, FENCES is a great play. August Wilson’s Tony Award -winner has been brought to the big screen untrimmed, a film that savors the play in every detail. Theater fans will find much to like, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Denzel Washington delivers a leonine, devouringly powerful performance as one of American theater’s most imposing patriarchs in “Fences,” a classic of ...

Depending on your family’s dynamic, “Fences” could be either a great or a terrible movie to see on Christmas. Is there unbearable tension between Dad and one of his offspring? Unless it’s the kind of ...

“Fences,” August Wilson’s heartfelt, rough-hewn play about a working-class black family in postwar Pittsburgh, had its debut in 1983 but feels exceptionally relevant today. Its themes of financial ...

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Denzel Washington’s film version of the August Wilson play “Fences” opens around the country on Christmas Day, but it’s a story nearly 30 years in the making. The celebrated playwright won the first ...

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“Fences” lives so firmly in the realm of real people that it humiliates the bulk of today’s noisy and superficial flicks. It is about, on the surface, a family that has faced a lifetime of ...

CHICAGO_ Antes de comenzar a filmar “Fences” en los barrios de Pittsburgh (Pensilvania), su director y protagonista Denzel Washington cortésmente le informó a los vecinos del lugar de una manera muy ...

August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Fences, is one of unwieldy power and prose, telling the story of a black man living in 1950s America, struggling with the continually changing race ...

The sins of the father are often paid for by the children, and Troy Maxson is a man of many sins. Denzel Washington directs and stars as Troy in the film “Fences,” based on the play by August Wilson.