Review: Playwright August Wilson played to the hilt in one-man theater show

Datebook: August Wilson might not have dreamed how far his talent and drive would take him when he was a struggling poet kicking around Pittsburgh’s Hill District in the 1960s, doing and promptly quitting menial jobs, getting into scrapes in bars and moving back in with his mother when he was broke. Or then again, maybe he did intuit his future at the pinnacle of American theater, achieved with his cycle of ten widely esteemed plays chronicling Black life in the 20th century.