“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.” ...

THE STORY. THIS PIANO IS AT THE CENTER OF THE STORY. IN AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON. IT’S A FAMILY HEIRLOOM, AND IT IS THE CENTER OF CONFLICT BETWEEN BOY WILLIE AND BERNIE’S BROTHER AND SISTER. I ...

The Shakespeare & Company production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” proves why the play, first produced on Broadway in 1990, deserved winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama as well as the Tony ...

LENOX — A haunting, unresolved past comes home to roost, almost with a vengeance, in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” the fourth play in his American Century Cycle — 10 plays, one in each decade of ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Set against the backdrop of 1936 Pittsburgh during the Great Depression, Wilson’s ...

Omar Robinson’s Boy Willie wants to stake his legacy by selling the family piano so he can buy Mississippi farmland from the Sutters, the family who enslaved Boy Willie’s ancestors, in “The Piano ...

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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s buzziest movies continues with Netflix‘s The Piano Lesson, the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August ...