But when I came back into the city for the first time last November, I thought every truck, every building was going to blow up. It has truly changed me something fierce.

http://www. Circle Repertory Company produced Wilson's Serenading Louie in 1976. The play concerns Leslie Bright a neurotic aging drag queen.

In 2004 Wilson was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received the PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award as a Master American Dramatist. He was nominated for three Tony Awards and has won a Drama Desk Award and an Obie Award. A prequel Talley's Folly (1979 at Circle Rep.