A round of ‘Radio Golf’ wraps up Wilson’s saga

Center Theatre Group’s long relationship with August Wilson continues as the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright completes his 10-play chronicle of the black experience through 20th century America. In “Radio Golf,” his final piece of the cycle, Wilson returns to Pittsburgh’s Hill District, where it’s now the highflying 1990s.

The house where Aunt Ester dealt with troubled souls in Wilson’s 1904-era “Gem of the Ocean” is about to be razed to make way for redevelopment. And the man spearheading the move to declare the area “blighted” is about to become the city’s first black mayor, until he comes up against Old Joe, a poetic ne’er-do-well, and finds himself at a life-changing crossroads.

“Radio Golf,” Mark Taper Forum, 135 N. Grand Ave., L.A. Opens today. Runs 8 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays, 7:30 p.m. Sundays, 2:30 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays. Exceptions: 2:30 and 8 p.m. Sept. 14; 2:30 p.m. only, Sept. 18; ends Sept. 18. $34-$52. (213) 628-2772. www.MarkTaperForum.org