The piano on the set of “The Piano Lesson” was not a mere prop. It could be played and the cast members often did. It was adorned with pictures of the Washington family and their ancestors. It was, ...

John David Washington as Boy Willie, Samuel L. Jackson as Doaker Charles, Michael Potts as Wining Boy and Ray Fisher as Lymon in 'The Piano Lesson.' Storied actor Denzel Washington has taken on the ...

Director Malcolm Washington, producer Denzel Washington, and the cast discuss bringing August Wilson’s classic play ‘The Piano Lesson’ to the screen. Boy Willie intends to use the money to buy the ...

The musical instrument sitting over in the corner, idle but not gathering dust, at the center of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-winning play The Piano Lesson is more than just a piano. It’s a family ...

And yet even among Wilson's outstanding and occasionally surreal plays, 'The Piano Lesson,' both a family drama and a ghost story, stands out as one of the odder works. It's a mix of themes and tones, ...

LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs her husband, starring opposite Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson’s drama about African Americans wrestling with the painful past. By David Rooney ...

Carolyn Jenkins is a voracious consumer of film and television. She graduated from Long Island University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing where she learned the art of character, plot, and ...

Storied actor Denzel Washington has taken on the project of adapting August Wilson’s cycle of 10 plays that portray slices of Black life in each decade of the 1900s. But it is Washington’s kids — John ...