HILL STREET BLUES.(Theater Review)

The world premiere of August Wilson's "Radio Golf," at the Yale Repertory, in New Haven, two weeks ago, made a little bit of American theatre history. "Radio Golf," directed by Timothy Douglas, is the final installment of Wilson's unprecedented, magisterial ten-play cycle, each part of which chronicles a decade of African-American life in the twentieth century. Wilson's output and quality, over the past twenty-four years, have been extraordinary. (The only other playwright to embark on as ambitious an endeavor was Eugene O'Neill, and he completed just two parts of what was to have been an eleven-play cycle.) At least six of the plays in Wilson's series--"Ma Rainey's Black ...