Written by August Wilson
Directed by Kenny Leon
NEW YORK TIMES:
"The momentum of “Radio Golf” is all in its twisting plot, which suggests a financial suspense drama like “Other People’s Money” crossed with the hopeful populism of a Frank Capra movie, in which a confused man discovers the decency within."
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NEW YORK POST:
"Is he being totally fair to the contemporary American black? Perhaps not. As a white man, I choose to believe not. But Wilson didn't have to be fair. He was a major, perhaps, who yet knows, even a great American playwright, and this was the story he wanted told. And it makes for great theater. "
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VARIETY:
"Still, even if it's less emotionally fulfilling than earlier installments, "Radio Golf" brings the titanic undertaking of a great playwright to a somber, reflective conclusion, underlining that the African-American struggle is ongoing. "
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NEWSDAY:
"It is the last big speech in the last play of August Wilson's great 10-volume cycle about the African-American 20th century, and it's a beauty."
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TIME OUT NY:
"Wilson declared Radio Golf finished before his untimely death in 2005, but it doesn’t feel that way. Wilks’s wryly pragmatic wife, Mame (Tonya Pinkins), is underwritten to the point of irrelevance, and the play romanticizes the idea of “going native” without giving equal time to the benefits of cultural assimilation. The playwright doesn’t seem particularly sanguine about the days to come. But then, Wilson was a writer suffused with the mythic richness of the past: The future was never his forte"
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THEATERMANIA:
"With his singular 10-play creation, August Wilson has gone out not with a whimper, but a bang."
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