Two works from Wilson’s 10-play cycle make a big comeback within days of each other in late December. Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fences gets its Hollywood film treatment on Christmas day, with stars Denzel Washington and Viola Davis, and Jitney (1979), directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, begins previews on Broadway on December 28.
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