Reaffirming August Wilson’s Greatness

August Wilson’s “great plays are surely without equal in our time. The staggering King Hedley II–the ninth in his magnificent 10-play cycle of African-American life–has now been excellently revived by the Signature Theatre Company, and it still frightens me. The concluding scene of accidental murder and messianic biblical incantation leaves us devastated and helpless, as if we were watching ritual human sacrifice.”