An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” ...

A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's ...

An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in ...

Nov. 2—Wilson County is undertaking updates to its master land use plan. "It's a map, it's a vision and it's kind of a template," Wilson County Mayor Randall Hutto said. During a public meeting ...

The piano in “The Piano Lesson” is a thing of pride and sorrow ... but it also carries its own will. The playwright August ...

An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which ...

The piano in “The Piano Lesson” is a thing of pride and sorrow ... The playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) made it his life’s work to create a cycle of plays in which black Americans ...

Regardless of your familiarity with Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, “The Piano Lesson” is a worthwhile, captivating and moving watch full of charismatic performers. Talent isn’t always genetic ...

Yes, “The Piano Lesson,” in theaters Friday and streaming on Netflix on Nov. 22, isn’t just a meditation on family history. It’s also a literal ghost story, with creaks, spooks and shadows ...