Filmmaker Malcolm Washington tells us how he made the bold choice to adapt August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” as his first ...

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

ATLANTA — Samuel L. Jackson has a long history with the acclaimed August Wilson play “The Piano Lesson.” He first performed lead character Boy Willie at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1987. Three years ...

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 ...

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

The second Pittsburgh-set film-with-an-exorcism of 2024 arrives this month with Netflix’s adaptation of Pittsburgh native August Wilson’s play “The Piano Lesson,” playing at Waterworks ...

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 ...

At heart, August Wilson ... announces his plans to sell the piano to shore up the family finances, a standoff begins, with ...

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 ...