Introducing The August Wilson Theatre

Broadway’s Virginia Theatre was renamed the August Wilson Theatre. In a ceremony, Wilson’s daughter read the late playwright’s words on hearing the theatre was to be named for him: “I have a robust imagination and I have imagined for myself many things,” wrote Wilson, author of such plays as “Fences,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Piano Lesson.” I have imagined a wife and two beautiful daughters, and I have imagined a sustained career for myself in the theater. But not in my wildest imagination could I have ever imagined this.”