Based on the August Wilson play about the complex weight of Black lineage, Malcolm Washington's feature-length directorial ...

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For director Malcolm Washington, generational Black resilience and complex familial bonds are the underlying themes in front of and behind the camera for Netflix’s The Piano Lesson. Making his ...

Samuel L. Jackson's return to "The Piano Lesson" helps transform August Wilson's play into a contemporary cinematic ...

Danielle Deadwyler and Ray Fisher in “The Piano Lesson” Credit: David Lee/Netflix 4. What was it like to bring Lymon from the stage to the screen for the film version of “The Piano Lesson”?

for this showy adaptation of the 1987 stage play, The Piano Lesson. You might call it a family affair. Washington’s youngest son, Malcolm, directs; his eldest, John David, portrays the central ...

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CHICAGO — 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.

The Piano Lesson, first staged in 1987, comes complete with thumping titular metaphor. We are in the outskirts of Pittsburgh during the Great Depression. Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler), a black ...

The eponymous piano has an enormous presence throughout the film, whether as a central element of production design ... the best of stage and screen, The Piano Lesson finds deft balance ...