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

Nearly 50 years ago, I was a 14-year-old girl with big feelings who became enraptured by the movie Phantom of the Paradise.

Ghosts are everywhere in The Piano Lesson, and no matter what shape they take, they persistently haunt the protagonists of ...

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

Based on the August Wilson play about the complex weight of Black lineage, Malcolm Washington's feature-length directorial ...

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 ...

“The Piano Lesson” is a Washington family affair: Denzel producing, son John David starring, other son Malcolm directing, older daughter Katia on board as executive producer, and Malcolm’s ...

By The Associated Press Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo teaming up for the soundtrack to the upcoming movie “Wicked” and a TV ...

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 achievement, but it’s also a document of families enslaved and ...

Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo's "Wicked" soundtrack, Malcolm Washington's "The Piano Lesson," and the "Cruel Intentions" TV ...

But it is Washington’s kids — John David Washington, Malcolm Washington and executive producer Katia Washington — who have taken the baton for “The Piano Lesson,” one of Wilson’s two ...

“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 ...