Fences -- Theater Review

9:20 PM PDT 10/14/2010 by Frank Scheck, AP

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It's fitting that Denzel Washington, playing an former Negro Leagues player, brandishes a baseball bat numerous times in the Broadway revival of the late August Wilson's "Fences." The actor, bravely assuming the role in which James Earl Jones gave a memorably titanic, award-winning performance in the 1987 original production, hits it out of the park.