At first glance, it seems the plot of “The Piano Lesson,” now on stage at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, turns on a simple point of conflict: Boy Willie Charles wants to sell the family’s ...
A look at the piano designs for some of the various versions of August Wilson’s play, including the latest film adaptation. By Robert Ito Few props have played as pivotal a role in a theatrical ...
It is 1936, and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the ...
“Editor’s Note: “Object Lessons” is a feature that appears occasionally in the Appeal-Democrat and focuses on historic artifacts that help tell the history of Yuba-Sutter.” The elegant grand piano ...
There’s abundant magic still in The Piano Lesson, August Wilson’s grand, 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning tale of a Black family torn between legacy and ambition, the past and the future, and, it’s not an ...
LENOX, MASS. — 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 ...
WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for The Piano Lesson. Netflix's new historical drama The Piano Lesson features a significant ...
2023 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play Danielle Brooks 2023 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play Ray Fisher 2023 Drama Desk Awards Outstanding ...