August Wilson’s, Jitney directed by Jonathan Wilson (no relation). Jitney will run September 13 – October 28, 2007, at Pegasus Players, 1145 W. Wilson Avenue in the O'Rourke Center at Truman College, Chicago.

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Pulitzer-prize winning playwright August Wilson’s acclaimed first play, Jitney, is the 1970’s installment of his renowned cycle of ten plays depicting African-American life in the 20^th century.  Jitney tells the stories of the men working in a Pittsburgh taxi station where tensions run high as the city threatens to shut down the company.  Returning to Pegasus Players to helm this production will be Jonathan Wilson, director of Pegasus’ 2005 critical hit, Two Trains Running, also by August Wilson.

“Pegasus is very proud of our twenty-plus-year history with August Wilson.  Mr. Wilson is certainly one of the most important writers in American history, and Pegasus’ audiences, like all audiences, have always responded to his plays,” says Artistic Director Alex Levy. “We are also thrilled to have Jonathan Wilson, one of the nation’s most accomplished interpreters of August Wilson, back at Pegasus to direct this production.”