August Wilson

This collection features Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, voted Best Play of 1984-85 by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, Fences, winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, voted Best Play of 1987-88 by the New York Drama Critics’ Circle.

“With the benefit of 20 years of hindsight, one can posit that the maiden performance of "Ma Rainey" inaugurated the August Wilson era.  As both an individual playwright and a hub of theatrical activity, he has defined his time in the way Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, Neil Simon and Edward Albee defined the three preceding generations.”
–New York Times on Ma Rainey