Athol Fugard’s plays show the ways apartheid shaped the lives of South Africans, while they also reveal universal truths.

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead” and other works bear witness to forgotten lives and to the moral blindness and blinkered vision of the ...

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The ...

Athol Fugard is dead, the South African playwright & 'Tsotsi' writer was 92 - he also wrote 'The Blood Knot' & 'Master Harold ...

The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He ...

Athol Fugard, who has died aged 92, was widely acclaimed as one of South Africa's greatest playwrights. The son of an ...

Fugard, who died March 8, was a white South African whose plays explored the consequences of Apartheid. He was later awarded a Tony Award for lifetime achievement. Originally broadcast in 1986.

The life of Athol Fugard, a renowned South African playwright whose works transcended theatre to challenge apartheid and ...

By Bruce Weber Bruce Weber is a former theater critic and obituary writer for The Times. Athol Fugard, the South African playwright whose portrayals of intimate relationships burdened by ...

The 'Lion King' and 'Black Panther' actor wrote two searing protest plays about apartheid in the 1970s with his inspirational friend, who died this month.

When apartheid ended, and Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa, Athol Fugard thought his life as a playwright was over, he told NPR in 2015. "I sincerely believe that I was going ...

Athol Fugard, the South African playwright and director whose searing dramas confronted the brutal realities of apartheid and ...