Lloyd Richards, the dean of Yale School of Drama, received a package in the mail in December 1984 containing a typed draft script of “Fences,” a play by August Wilson that would premiere at Yale ...

Watching the powerful new film “Fences,” a triumph for actor-director Denzel Washington and co-star Viola Davis (both have earned raves and Oscar nods), and a rare slice-of-working-class black drama ...

Denzel Washington's film version of the August Wilson play "Fences" is a story nearly 30 years in the making. The celebrated playwright won the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes in 1987 for this family ...