American Stage Theatre in St. Petersburg is presenting a work by famous American playwright August Wilson.
Radio Golf will be the eighth of 10 Wilson plays presented by American Stage that follow the African-American experience in the 20th century.
Radio Golf is set in 1997 in the Hill district of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. It focuses on the potential development of the neighborhood and the lives that are affected by it.
Wilson was an African American Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright.
Most of his plays took place in the Hill district where he grew up.
Radio Golf was the last play Wilson wrote before his death in 2005.
Actor Anthony Chisholm was nominated for a Tony for his role of Joe Barlow in the Broadway production of Radio Golf, and he has reprised the role for the American Stage production. Chisholm describes his character Joe as a wondering soul who is trying to save his mother's home from demolition for development.
He speaks of August Wilson with respect.
"He has been a savior and a godsend because he writes for middle-aged African American men," said Chisholm.
Actor Alan Bomar Jones, who plays the role of would-be developer Harmond Wilks, says he has acted in nearly all of Wilson's plays.
"I started acting when I graduated from college and there weren't a lot of roles for African American men," said Jones. "So his plays --what they mean to me--they have given me, an African American male from age of 30 to 60, an opportunity to perform in his plays, to do material that I am familiar with and to enlighten an audience to my culture."
Radio Golf will be performed at American Stage Theatre through February 22.