The Signature Theatre Company’s limited engagement of August Wilson’s Two Trains Running has been extended an additional three weeks, January 2 – 21, 2007, but don’t wait long if you want it see it. Tickets are going fast. (I got mine today, for the third week.)
Signature has put three Wilson plays on their 2006-2007 season schedule. “Seven Guitars” ran from July to October, and “King Hedley II” is slated to open February 20. Wilson, who died from liver cancer in October 2005, wrote a ten play cycle chronicling the African American experience during the 20th Century, setting all of his productions in his native Pittsburgh.
“Two Trains Running” takes place in 1969 in a diner that serves as central gathering place in the neighborhood. Directed by Lou Bellamy, the play stars Leon Addison Brown, Chad L. Coleman (“Cutty” Wise from The Wire), Frankie Faison (Commisioner Burrell, also from The Wire), Arthur French, Ron Cephas Jones, January LaVoy and Ed Wheeler.