The founder of St. Paul’s Penumbra Theatre has reached a $3.4 million settlement over his 41-year-old son’s death in the ...

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

Deadwyler plays Berniece, a mother trying to stay afloat after the death of her husband and warring with her brother over ...

Playwright August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” comes down to this: A sister and brother, haunted by the violent disruption of their Mississippi childhoods, reunite in 1936 Pittsburgh.

It’s also a literal ghost story. An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” Generational ties also permeate ...

It’s an instrument in two senses: You can play it, but it also carries its own will. The playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) ...

How many shows has August Wilson written? August Wilson has written 15 shows including Fences (Playwright), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (Playwright), Urban Blight (Bookwriter), The Piano Lesson ...

Samuel L. Jackson returns to "The Piano Lesson" 37 years after performing in the August Wilson play when Wilson was still working on the play.

It’s fitting that two generations of Washingtons have adapted August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, given “The Piano Lesson” is a multigenerational story set primarily in the ...

An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm ...