August Wilson's "Jitney" opens Arena Stage’s season-long festival celebration of the playwright.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson directs his 2017 Broadway production, produced on Broadway by Manhattan Theatre Club in association with Eric Falkenstein, Ron Simons, John Legend/Mike Jackson and Ken Wirth. Arena Stage's presentation of the winner of the 2017 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play kicks off the National Tour.
August Wilson's play takes place at a Pittsburgh jitney station. The drivers resist powerful forces, such as unnerving neighborhood gentrification, while coming to grips with their pasts to fulfill their own hopes and dreams for the future.