Troy Maxson is a big man with a big personality, a troubled, bitter giant who believes he owes his family everything -- from his paycheck to his soul. He's the protagonist -- you can't quite say "hero ...

The sins of the father are often paid for by the children, and Troy Maxson is a man of many sins. Denzel Washington directs and stars as Troy in the film “Fences,” based on the play by August Wilson.

Disclaimer: This is not a sports movie. Having said that, Troy Maxson, the main character in “Fences,” is a Black man who claims he would have made it to the Major Leagues but never got the chance ...

Striking out in baseball is often used as an analogy for the vicissitudes of life. In August Wilson's acclaimed Pulitzer Prize and Tony award-winning play "Fences," the main character Troy Maxson is a ...

Denzel Washington strolls in dressed all baggy: ingratiating, sly, a man of eloquence and scat, quiet and crescendo. The bulk of him rises. So many things writ into his characters, saint, conniver, ...

Ron Himes, founder and producing director of The Black Rep, will star as Troy Maxson in the upcoming production of “Fences,” which runs Jan 3-21 at Washington University’s Edison Theatre. On the heels ...

As Troy Maxson, the 1950s Pittsburgh sanitation worker at the center of Fences, Denzel Washington stands slightly stooped, in a way that suggests a lifetime of lifting—but when he talks, he soars. The ...

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The late Chadwick Boseman’s stunning performance in the Netflix production of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom notwithstanding, August Wilson’s Fences is probably the most popular of the ten included in ...

He's the protagonist — you can't quite say "hero," unless you add "tragic" in front — of August Wilson's play Fences. James Earl Jones, who... Troy Maxson: Heart, Heartbreak as Big as the World Troy ...