The piano in “The Piano Lesson” is a thing of pride and sorrow. It’s a family heirloom, a work of art, and a symbol of black achievement, but it’s also a document of families enslaved and ...

I know Deadwyler doesn’t do hogwash — on screen or off. There’s something so compelling about her as an artist. Watching her as Berniece in The Piano Lesson is a case in point. Danielle ...

“The Piano Lesson” is one of the 10 plays that make up playwright August Wilson’s “Pittsburgh Cycle.” Each play represents a decade from the 1900s to the 1990s; this one takes place in ...

Malcolm Washington talks about bringing the play The Piano Lesson — about a brother and sister battling over what to do with a family heirloom piano — to the big screen with his whole family.

The vibes were electric from a full theater at the Telluride Film Festival in anticipation of Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut, “The Piano Lesson.” After Washington humbly thanked ...

It's the third movie to be adapted from August Wilson's 10-play series. If good intentions were all, this screen version of "The Piano Lesson" would earn high marks. But wishing doesn't make it so.

The Piano Lesson. Danielle Deadwyler as Berniece in ... playing John David Washington’s friend, who really pops on screen. At Telluride, many attendees praised Fisher’s turn, and as more ...

(“The Piano Lesson” is the third production ... Just before the end credits rolled, the words “For Mama” appear on screen. “She was crying. She was just proud,” Malcolm says of ...

It was Chadwick Boseman’s final on-screen performance before he died from cancer in 2020. Charles Dutton and Alfre Woodard starred in the first film adaptation of “The Piano Lesson” in 1995 ...

By Scott Feinberg Executive Editor of Awards The Piano Lesson, a big screen adaptation of August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play — the fourth in the late playwright’s celebrated ...