Timeline: 1990-2005, in Decades
Biblio/Biographical/Critical Sources

1990 - 1999
1990  

• "Piano Lesson" opens on Broadway, wins New York Drama Critic Circle  Award, and second Pulitzer Prize.
• "Two Trains Running" premieres.
• Second marriage ends; moves to Seattle.
• The Piano Lesson,  Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame Award.

Publications:

• Maclean's, May 28, 1990, p. 62
• Nation, June 1, 1990, pp. 832-33    
• New Republic, May 21, 1990, pp. 28-30   
• New York,  May 7, 1990, pp. 82-83
• New Yorker, April 30, 1990, p.85
• New York Post, April 17, 1990
• New York Times, April 17, 1990, p. C13

1991

• Antoinette Perry Award nomination for best play.
• American Theatre Critics' Association Award.

Publications:

•  "Three Plays by August Wilson" published by University of Pittsburgh Press.
• New York Times, March 10, 1991, section 2, pp.5, 17

1992 

• Receives honorary degree from Pitt, speaks at Honors Convocation.
• Two Trains Running" opens on Broadway, wins NYDCC Award for best American play.
• Tour of "Piano Lesson" plays Fulton Theater; "Ma Rainey" at Pittsburgh Public.
• Two Trains Running,  Clarence Muse Award.
• Recipient of Bush and Guggenheim Foundation fellowships.

Publications:

• Maclean's, May 18, 1992, pp.56-57
• Newsweek, April 27, 1992, p.70
• New Yorker, April 27, 1992, p.85
• Time, April 27, 1992, pp.65-66

1994

• Marries Constanza Romero, costume designer.
• "Piano Lesson" filmed on a set in Harmarville and on location in Shadyside, Downtown, North Side and Squirrel Hill.
• "Two Trains Running" at Pittsburgh Public.

Publications:

• Journal and Constitution (Atlanta), October 13, 1994, p. Dli
• Theatre Journal, December, 1994, pp.468-76  

1995 

• "Piano Lesson" broadcast on Hallmark Hall of Fame.
• "Seven Guitars" premieres.

Publications:

• Boston Globe, February 3, 1995, section 3/ p. 47
• Chicago Tribune, January 15, 1995, section 13, pp. 16-17, 21
• Journal and Constitution (Atlanta), January 9, 1995, p. D5
• Newsweek, February 6, 1995, p.60
• New York Times, January 25, 1995, pp. C13-C14; February 3, 1995, p. D26; February 5, 1995, section 2, pp.1, 5.New York
• Times Book Review
• Time, February 6, 1995, p.71     

1996 

• "Seven Guitars" on Broadway, wins NYDCC Award.
• In June, electrifies national convention of non-profit theaters with a controversial call for separate black companies.
• Revises "Jitney" for professional premiere at Pittsburgh Public Theater.

Publications:

• African American Review, spring, 1996, p.99         
• New York Times Book Review, March 3, 1996, p.22
• People, May 13, 1996, p.63
• Variety, February 26, 1996, p.175

1997 

• Wages public debate in New York City with critic Robert Brustein on status of black theater.
• Azula Carmen Wilson born, Aug. 27.
• "Seven Guitars" debuts at Pittsburgh Public Theater.

1998  

• Teaches playwriting at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; convenes Dartmouth conference on African American Theater that establishes African Grove Institute of the Arts.
• Honored at Edward Albee Theater Conference in Valdez, Alaska.

1999  

• Honored at 100th anniversary of Hill District Branch Library with the first high school diploma awarded by the Carnegie Library.
• Round-table discussion at Public Theater with Black playwrights Keith Glover, John Henry Redwood and his new director, Marion McClinton, who says, "August is Michael Jackson at this table."
• Named top Pittsburgh cultural power broker, 1998-99, by Post-Gazette.
• "King Hedley II" premieres at Pittsburgh Public Theater in co-production with Seattle Rep, the first play in the new O'Reilly Theater.

2000 - 2005
2000

• "Jitney" finally arrives in New York, the first Wilson play to be staged Off-Broadway; it wins his seventh NYDCC Award.
• Wilson Delivers angry historical critique of American racism at Heinz Lecture Series.

2001 

• "King Hedley II" on Broadway; first Wilson play not to win NYDCC Award.

2002 

• "Gem of the Ocean" premieres in Chicago.
• "Jitney" wins London's Olivier Award for year's best play.
• Move begins to save Wilson's childhood Hill home as an historic site.

2003  

• "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" revived on Broadway with Whoopi Goldberg and original star Charles Dutton.
• "Piano Lesson" at Pittsburgh Public Theater.
• Performs solo autobiographical stand-up, "How I Learned What I Learned," in Seattle.
• In Pittsburgh, receives $250,000 Heinz Award for Arts and Humanities from Teresa Heinz Kerry.

2004

• "Gem of the Ocean" opens on Broadway after a scramble to secure financing; closes after 72 performances while drawing full houses.
• Presides at North Side wedding of associate Todd Kreidler and Erin Annarella.

2005

• "Radio Golf" premieres at Yale Rep in March.
• Diagnosed with deadly liver cancer, June 16.
• Revised "Radio Golf" opens in Los Angeles in July.
• Dies Sunday, Oct. 2, at age 60 in Seattle's Swedish Medical Center.