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  • The Jitney is the high-class way to commute between your summer home or just plain Long Island residence and Manhattan.

    Wi-Fi Networking News 2009

  • The troupe scored its biggest-ever box-office success last fall with "The Wiz" when measuring by income, not tickets sold - August Wilson's "Jitney" still holds that title, and right now "The Second City Does Baltimore" is selling briskly in the Head Theater upstairs.

    Irene Lewis leaves Center Stage with the same edge that defined her career Nelson Pressley 2011

  • To be sure, American plays and musicals have always attracted attention in a capital where winners of the Olivier Award, London's equivalent of the Tony, have included August Wilson's "Jitney," John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation," and David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross."

    A Plethora Of Americans On the London Stage The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • To be sure, American plays and musicals have always attracted attention in a capital where winners of the Olivier Award, London's equivalent of the Tony, have included August Wilson's "Jitney," John Guare's "Six Degrees of Separation," and David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross."

    A Plethora Of Americans On the London Stage 2010

  • Gordon Davidson, for instance, directed "Jitney" earlier this year for "August Wilson's 20th Century," the Kennedy Center's landmark festival of staged readings of Wilson's plays.

    The Color Bind 2008

  • Yale Rep. He helmed a reworked "Jitney," which had been a one-act, staging it across the country and in London.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2010

  • On Wednesday, John Beasley and the John Beasley Theater will present a preview of August Wilson's "Jitney," which opens at the theater Feb. 5.

    Omaha World-Herald > Frontpage 2010

  • Stephen McKinley Henderson (off-Broadway's "Jitney") as Charley,

    Courant.com Blogs 2009

  • Bust 'em out or take the opportunity to buy, because you won't be able to wear the following on the roof of a bar or on a muggy journey to the Jitney:

    Elizabeth Nicholas: The Iceman Cometh Elizabeth Nicholas 2011

  • Bust 'em out or take the opportunity to buy, because you won't be able to wear the following on the roof of a bar or on a muggy journey to the Jitney:

    Elizabeth Nicholas: The Iceman Cometh Elizabeth Nicholas 2011

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