set in the 1930s during the Great Depression. Boy Willie (played by John David) has come to Pittsburgh from Mississippi with ...

The three E flat concertos receive bold, characterful readings, and one hopes that Mozart would have giggled at Frank-Gemmill ...

An electrifying Danielle Deadwyler is the reason to see this Washington family production.

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.

At heart, August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is a ghost story. Set in 1930s Pittsburgh (other than a brief prologue in 1911 ...

The father produces, son Malcolm Washington directs, and son John David Washington stars in a worthy film version of the ...

Two years ago, the actor found herself in an Oscars controversy after being snubbed for 'Till.' Now she returns with 'Piano ...

Regardless of your familiarity with Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, “The Piano Lesson” is a worthwhile, captivating and moving ...

“The Piano Lesson” is one of the 10 plays that make up playwright ... there was no need to overdo the ghostly effects on ...

It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family’s home. Another fleshes out Doaker’s monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, ...

To begin to appreciate what Quincy Jones meant to American popular music, listen to Frank Sinatra’s 1964 recording of “Fly Me to the Moon” with the Count Basie Orchestra swinging ...

Brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen have played music together as far back as they can remember. They performed for the Dutch ...