Two Trains Running

Two Trains Running
Broadway production poster
Original languageEnglish
Written byAugust Wilson
SeriesThe Pittsburgh Cycle
SubjectThe uncertain future promised by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
GenreDrama
Settingthe Hill District of Pittsburgh, 1969
Premiere
DateMarch 27, 1990
PlaceYale Repertory Theatre
New Haven, Connecticut
Directed byLloyd Richards

Two Trains Running is a 1990 play by American playwright August Wilson, the seventh in his ten-part series The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play takes place in 1969 in the Hill District, an African-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It explores the social and psychological manifestations of changing attitudes toward race from the perspective of its urban Black characters. The play reached Broadway in 1992, won several awards, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

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