Two Trains Running

Two Trains Running
Broadway production poster
Written by	August Wilson
Date premiered	1990
Place premiered	Yale Repertory Theatre New Haven, Connecticut
Original language	English
Series	The Pittsburgh Cycle
Subject	The uncertain future promised by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s
Genre	Drama
Setting	the 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.