LENOX — Set in Pittsburgh's Hill District in 1936, August Wilson’s "The Piano Lesson” is the fourth play in his 10-play American Century Cycle — one play for each decade — tracking the migration of ...

Pittsburgh, 1936: Boy Willie returns from the Jim Crow South to his family home to reclaim half of a fortune he believes is his.

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 ...

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 ...

From left: “ranney," Omar Robison, Ariel Phillips and Jade Guerra in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of August Wilson’s "The Piano Lesson." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) Boy Willie is the ...

Mike Coppola/Getty Images for The Gotham Film & Media Institute John David Washington found himself in a rare situation while promoting his latest film, Netflix’s “The Piano Lesson.” It was his first ...

The NAACP Image Award for Entertainer of the Year may determine which celebrity had the biggest year for Black audiences. Was it rapper Kendrick Lamar, whose beef with Drake dominated headlines for ...

Milwaukee Repertory Theater will continue its season with one of the most powerful works in the American canon, August Wilson ...

Go inside rehearsals for Milwaukee Repertory Theater's production of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, running February ...

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 ...