The first Broadway revival of the play opened at the Cort Theatre on April 26, 2010, with a limited 13-week engagement. It also received Tony Award nominations for Best Featured Actor in a Play (Faison and Vance). The production won the Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (James Earl Jones), Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play (Mary Alice), and Best Direction of a Play (Lloyd Richards), as well as the Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding New Play, Outstanding Actor in a Play(Jones), and Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play (Alice). Directed by Lloyd Richards, the cast featured James Earl Jones, Mary Alice and Courtney B. Fences premiered on Broadway at the 46th Street Theatre on March 26, 1987, and closed on June 26, 1988, after 525 performances and 11 previews. Fences had it’s world premiere at Yale Repertory Theatre with a subsequent production at The Goodman Theatre. The play won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 1987 Tony Award for Best Play. Like all of the “Pittsburgh” plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes. Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson’s ten-part “Pittsburgh Cycle”. Fences is a 1983 play by American playwright August Wilson.
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