Warning: This article contains major spoilers for "The Piano Lesson." The stars of “The Piano Lesson” had quite the spiritual experience by the time the Netflix movie came to its dramatic end. Based ...
The entirety of the action in August Wilson’s THE PIANO LESSON unfolds in a single place - a house in Pittsburgh's Hill District, in the mid-1930s. That domicile, home to Doaker Charles, his niece, ...
There are several reasons why. First is because the piano is made of wood and that wood has carvings on it, made by her father that tell their family's history. Second, her mother loved when Berniece ...
“The Piano Lesson” is the year’s most unexpected horror movie. Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut, adapted from the August Wilson play, has Oscar best-picture prospects and possible acting ...
Danielle Deadwyler as Berniece and John David Washington as Boy Willie Credit - Courtesy of Netflix In this intricate story about intergenerational trauma and lasting scars, set in 1936, John David ...
From left: “ranney," Omar Robison, Ariel Phillips and Jade Guerra in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of August Wilson’s "The Piano Lesson." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) Boy Willie is the ...
“Everybody’s got to travel,” says Doaker, played by actor Jefferson A. Russell in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” at Everyman Theatre. “If you stay in one place, you get stuck with the same thing.” ...