Boy Willie hopes to make a killing from the melons ... Like many a film version of a play, “The Piano Lesson” is heavy on dialogue, and is also somewhat diluted by tangential material ...

Filmed in Atlanta, “The Piano Lesson” stars John David as Boy Willie Charles, a sharecropper who wants to sell his family’s heirloom piano to buy the land where his ancestors were once enslaved.

Set in Pittsburgh during the US Great Depression in the 1930s, The Piano Lesson is a complex and ambitious play centring on the intense despute between siblings Berniece and Boy Willie over their ...

John David Washington appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's talk show in November 2024 to promote his horror drama film The Piano Lesson. During the conversation, Washington showered praises on his co-star ...