![]() ![]() Masks must be worn unless actively eating or drinking. Vaccination & Booster cards will be required before entrance into the space. Virtual and in person shows run from April 14-24. It was nominated for Tony Awards for Best Play, Best Actress, Best Scenic Design, Best Costume Design and Best Lighting Design. Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life. ![]() District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and. Gem of the Ocean premiered in 2003 at the Goodman theater, before moving to Broadway in 2004. Aunt Esther, the drama’s 287-year-old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill. Gem of the Ocean is the first chronological work in August Wilson’s 10-play, Pulitzer Prize-winning Century Cycle, dramatizing African American life in the 20th century. It is the second play which has the recurrence of the only staple white character of Rutherford Selig. Chronologically this is the first in the Century Cycle, and the only play in which Aunt Ester appears. Set in the Hill District of Pittsburgh in 1904, Gem of the Ocean follows the story of Aunt Ester, the local conjure woman of the neighborhood, and the assistance given to Citizen Barlow, a man who has stolen a bucket of nails from the mill which ends in the death of a man accused of the crime. Set in 1904, this first installment of August Wilsons The American Century Cycle journeys to Pittsburghs. Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson, the first show for the Black Indigeneity Season, is the origin story for the matriarch within Wilson’s American Century Cycle. ![]()
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