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The dedication of part of Republican Street, where it was renamed August Wilson Way , was a very important mark on the city. It is largely metaphorical, in proper proportion for a man who created largely metaphorical works that only hinted at a much deeper reality. As a playwright, August Wilson knew that the closest a play could get to telling a story was like the mirror to nature. It might look and sound the same, but they are always separated by mortality, and at best, plays would always be a metaphor. These metaphors were, in fact, the keys to his own immortality, and that’s something that the world community felt deeply when he passed on in 2006 .

Seattle might not be the perfect resting place for him, but it is what it is, and that’s where he spent the last decade of his life. He loved the city more than most of his audience knew. He would always be acquainted with the Twin Cities, and Pittsbrugh’s South Side, and even New York, where he spent formative years and later on mature ones. However, as theatre towns go, Seattle has had a very lively scene for some time now, and it was always one where he felt at home, developing new work, meeting people, smoking, drinking coffee, and engaging in conversations that kept the blood flowing through the veins and sometimes, it seemed, into the pen.

It’s impossible, of course, to find him here now, but the sprit is there. It hasn’t been long, but the city seems to have taken his ghost under its very wing, and agreed to remember the life through the work. Seattle hotel reservations may not be the ticket to bringing the lost one back from that side of the tracks, but it can make for an entry into a city that could nurture dreams and give them a place to draw breath.