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Originally published on May 10, 2021 1:35 pm For more than a decade, ​high school students around the country have honored the life and work of the late playwright August Wilson with an annual monologue competition, delivering scenes from “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson.” The first round is held regionally and in a typical year winners advance to a national final in New York City. Louisiana hasn’t participated in the past, but L.B. Landry High School in Algiers hopes to change that. This year, the school hosted its own version of the event called The August Experience. The pur...

L.B. Landry High School in Algiers. May 1, 2021. For more than a decade, ​high school students around the country have honored the life and work of the late playwright August Wilson with an annual monologue competition, delivering scenes from “Fences” and “The Piano Lesson.” The first round of competition is held regionally and in a typical year winners advance to a national final in New York City. Louisiana hasn’t held a local competition in the past, but that changed Saturday when L.B. Landry High School in Algiers hosted the state’s inaugural event. Twenty-one students from ...

CinemaBlend Fences and just watched Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. What’s next? Well, in case you didn’t know, you’ve actually just watched two whole decades worth of the black experience, as these two films make up 20% of the famous playwright, August Wilson’s, Pittsburgh Cycle, which is also known at the Century Cycle. Back in college, I was obsessed with two playwrights named August, and they were August Strindberg and August Wilson. And while Strindberg definitely messed with my headspace with plays like Miss Julie and A Dream Play, it was August Wilson who I actual...

The issue is -- the issue, is it political satire that's gone too far? wnbc tv reporter tom lamas joins us. the setup is they had different presidents and they showed what they looked like when they went into office and what they looked like when they left office. >> exactly. and there was, obviously, no photo for the obamas, so they showed a clip of "sanford & son." and the publisher says race never played a role. he said the piece is funny because of race. he said if you think about it, fred sanford was a successful person. >> the political satire starts out innocent enough. former president...

Has decided to pull its ads. >> oh, yeah, i do apologize to people who got offended by it. and that's why i'm putting the retraction in. >> reporter: that apology will be push published in the next edition. he says much of the criticism is coming from democrats who don't like the paper. some at "smithtown" did defend the piece but didn't want to do it on camera. do you think people are playing the race card with you? >> oh, definitely. definitely. >> reporter: a lot of people we spoke with in "smithtown," some people did defend the piece. he said this it wasn't racist, but race is so sensitive...