Two Trains Running

Two Trains Running
Broadway production poster
Written byAugust Wilson
Date premiered1990
Place premieredYale Repertory Theatre
New Haven, Connecticut
Original languageEnglish
SeriesThe Pittsburgh Cycle
SubjectThe uncertain future promised by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
GenreDrama
Settingthe Hill District of Pittsburgh, 1969

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 1968 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 premiered on Broadway in 1992 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.