The lights come up on a bare stage. Two black South African actors, dressed in prison uniforms, mime shovelling sand into wheelbarrows in a quarry. As if perspiring profusely in the glaring noonday ...

All politics is local, the saying goes. But political art often transcends boundaries with ease. Case in point: "The Island," the 1973 South African prison drama written by white playwright Athol ...

“Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the realities of apartheid South Africa. By Roslyn Sulcas In works like “Blood ...

South African playwright Athol Fugard has died. He wrote about life during and after apartheid in plays such as "Blood Knot" and "Master Harold... And The Boys." He was 92 years old. With more, here's ...

When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going to be ...

In the annals of South Africa's tumultuous history, few figures stand as tall as Athol Fugard—a playwright whose work transcended the segregated society of apartheid and contributed to the legacy of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Some of Fugard's best known work included Blood knot (1961), The Island (1973), ...

Athol Fugard, the Blood Knot, Master Harold… and the Boys and Tsotsi writer who is widely regarded as South Africa’s greatest ...

The fine Signature Theater revival of Athol Fugard’s 1969 play shows how a classic seemingly fixed in one era nevertheless keeps evolving. By Jesse Green Athol Fugard has directed his own masterwork ...