August Wilson

Two Trains Runningis a 1990 play by American playwrightAugust Wilson, the seventh in his ten-part seriesThe Pittsburgh Cycle. The play takes place in 1968 in theHill District, anAfrican-American neighborhoodinPittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It explores the social and psychological manifestations of changing attitudes toward race from the perspective of its urban Black characters. The play premiered onBroadwayin 1992 and was a finalist for thePulitzer Prize for Drama.

In 1969 amidst the civil rights movement, Memphis Lee’s restaurant is set to be demolished by the city. While he fights to be paid a fair price for his property, his employees and regulars search for work, love, and justice as their neighborhood changes around them.