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

How Malcolm Washington paid homage to his family legacy with directorial debut 'The Piano Lesson': 'A big part of this was ...

An heirloom piano ... the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie. It’s not the simplest thing to ...

She landed a play that Jasmine Guy was directing and began turning her artistic ... “Fences,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” and ...

The actor and former pro athlete talks working with his relatives on the new August Wilson film adaptation, ghosts, and his ...

Berniece will not hear of any sale, despite the fact that she stopped playing the piano after Mama Ola died. The instrument features an intricately hand-carved history of the Charles family ...

The faithful Denzel Washington-produced August Wilson adaptation centers on two siblings fighting over an inherited piano ... She landed a play that Jasmine Guy was directing and began turning ...

An heirloom piano takes on ... simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room.

At times, the mannered feeling of certain scenes and the play-to-the-balcony techniques ... an equal stake in that 137-year-old piano, which is equal parts family heirloom and family curse ...

“The Piano Lesson ... simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room.