Exploring themes of ancestral reparations and generational grief, The Piano Lesson is powerful on paper, but unremarkable on the screen. Each act passes through a revolving door of genres ...

When playwright August Wilson died in 2005, theater critic Charles Isherwood — writing for the New York Times — called him “theater’s poet of Black America.” His enduring legacy to ...

The Piano Lesson is a highly-charged drama, but it is also a horror story. Read more – The Deliverance movie review: Glenn Close goes for the throat in Netflix’s glossy horror film, based on the ...

The story of Zeff playing the harmonica was picked up by other cities and soon gained attention across the country. However, there was a valuable lesson Zeff learned from the harmonica.

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Denzel Washington directed Fences (2016), an adaptation of the August Wilson play. It was reported that Washington would produce all of Wilson's plays set in Pittsburgh. Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ...

When I started to watch The Piano Lesson, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I had only read a vague synopsis of the plot—a tale about a Black family's relationship with a special heirloom during the ...

When I watched it again this weekend in my house, streaming via the film’s permanent home on Netflix, the scene remained an impressive display of the intense power of playwright August Wilson ...

The latest adaptation of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” premiered Friday on Netflix ... Like, it’s straight-up horror in these moments and they weigh pretty heavily on the film. A Slant review of ...

Malcolm Washington’s The Piano Lesson is a poignant and thought-provoking adaptation that captures the spirit of August Wilson’s play while offering a fresh cinematic perspective. Though not without ...

Review: Theatrical in tone, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is a captivating drama that delves into a family’s struggle over an heirloom piano. Set in Pittsburgh, in the aftermath of the Great Depression ...