Fences on Broadway tickets are a hot commodity right now, and the rave reviews come in the demand for Fences tickets increases. What exactly is the story behind this successful production and what are the truths that make it so popular?

August Wilson, Self-Taught Playwright
August Wilson, the creator of Fences, began life as August Kittel, the son of a German immigrant father and an African-American mother. Kittel’s father rarely saw him during his childhood, so little in fact, that, by the time Kittel was 20 he’d completely severed ties with him and took his mother’s name, Wilson. The young August Wilson had by then experienced the American dark side first hand in all its shameful underhandedness. Racism was an everyday obstacle to Wilson’s peace of mind, and it led to his dropping out of high school to teach himself instead. Wilson’s initial love was poetry, but it wasn’t long before he was absorbed by the world of theater. He was on the road to becoming one of this country’s most respected and accomplished playwrights.

Fences Synopsis
Fences tells the story of Troy Maxson, a once talented athlete who fell prey to his own rages at society’s injustices. Maxson serves time in prison for a serious crime and emerges with a fresh anger driving him on. Maxson’s wife, Rose, is long-used to his temper and the trouble it causes, but she remains loyal through some harrowing violence and humiliations, despite events in the play that provide a severe jolt to everyone involved. Fences takes place in a Pittsburgh neighborhood, like almost all of Wilson’s plays, this time in a backyard where drinking and talking are taking place. Maxson’s family all play a part, as do other characters, such as his devoted friend Jim Bono and (absent) mistress Alberta. Fences tickets are the kind of theater ticket you buy when you’re looking for a real drama, when the bubblegum and cotton candy won’t do it for you. Wilson’s own experiences at the bad end of the American Dream are crystallized and cast onto the stage like dirty jewels, and the audience is left in no doubt that this is a play about real people in a real place.

Fences as a Wilson Autobiography
Fences is in many ways autobiographical and the crowning glory of the ten Wilson plays that came to be known as The Pittsburgh Cycle. The character of Troy Maxson is believed to have been based on Wilson’s stepfather, David Bedford, a former athlete who once spent time in jail for murder. Maxson’s wife in Fences is called Rose, possibly based on Daisy, Wilson’s mother. The names certainly have something in common. Fences packs several emotional punches, and resounds with a realism that couldn’t possibly have been made of imagination alone. Wilson died aged 60 of liver cancer, a huge loss to American playwrighting. Check out the Fences tickets on Broadway right here, and make sure you catch this comet of a play. It will speak to you on levels that most plays cannot dream of attaining.

Fences on Broadway Tickets
Fences tickets first sold for Broadway back in 1987, with the Larry Richards-directed James Earl Jones – still the yardstick to this day in terms of the best version of this powerful drama. This Denzel Washington Broadway revival of fences is destined to become yet another classic, so buy Fences tickets and say you were there when yet another Hollywood heavyweight took on August Wilson’s famous role. The cycle of plays being re-enacted is an old one, but when one of those plays is one of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, then you know you’re in for a treat.