Smithsonian Magazine2d
The Surprising Artwork That Inspired Netflix’s ‘The Piano Lesson,’ a New Movie Based on August Wilson’s Award-Winning Play
A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's ...
The New Yorker4d
Is the Twentieth-Century Novel a Genre?
An ambitious new book sees hidden currents linking writers as disparate as Colette, Thomas Mann, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia ...
The New York Times28d
Broadway Shows to See This Fall
(At the August Wilson Theater ... growing into an artist. Shoshana Bean and Brandon Victor Dixon play her parents, and Kecia Lewis plays her piano teacher in a Tony-winning performance.
Wall Street Journal on MSN7d
‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: August Wilson Back on Screen
The piano in “The Piano Lesson” is a thing of pride and sorrow. It’s a family heirloom, a work of art, and a symbol of black ...
Daily Herald7d
The Washington family tells a ghost story in August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’
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 Malcolm ...
ABC News8d
Movie Review: The Washington family tells a ghost story in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson’
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 Washington Post7d
What haunted the creators of ‘The Piano Lesson’
Next up: “The Piano Lesson,” which opens in select theaters Friday before moving to Netflix later this month. By now, the names Washington and Wilson have become as closely associated as ...
The Grio8d
Review: Denzel Washington’s children explore a haunting family history in August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson’
It’s also a literal ghost story. An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” Generational ties also permeate ...
Wall Street Journal7d
‘The Piano Lesson’ Review: August Wilson Back on Screen
The piano in “The Piano Lesson” is a thing of pride and sorrow. It’s a family heirloom, a work of art, and a symbol of ... The playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) made it his life’s ...
The Boston Globe8d
‘The Piano Lesson’: a family affair focused on a precious heirloom
“The Piano Lesson” is one of the 10 plays that make up playwright August Wilson’s “Pittsburgh Cycle.” Each play represents a decade from the 1900s to the 1990s; this one takes place in ...