The fact that there are so many Washingtons involved befits “Piano Lesson” (streaming now on Netflix), a drama based on the August Wilson play that’s very much about family legacy. In 1936 ...

Netflix’s “The Piano Lesson,” starring John David Washington and Danielle Deadwyler, is based on August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

B ased on the August Wilson play about the complex weight of Black lineage, Malcolm Washington's feature-length directorial debut, The Piano Lesson, fittingly breaks a family curse.It's the third ...

August Wilson is one of America’s greatest playwrights, and The Piano Lesson may be one of his greatest works. The writing is so powerful, I’m not sure you could stage a bad version if you tried.

A made-for-TV movie version of “The Piano Lesson” boasted a star-filled cast including Charles S. Dutton as Boy Willie, Alfre Woodard as Berniece and Carl Gordon as Doaker.

The Piano Lesson opens on the fourth of July in 1911. ... The instrument is a work of art: Etched in the upper panels is a triptych representing the Charles family's history.

Danielle Deadwyler speaks about 'The Piano Lesson' in a new interview with IndieWire. ... whether it’s me in the studio working on performance art or visual art or commercial film and TV.

From left: “ranney," Omar Robison, Ariel Phillips and Jade Guerra in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of August Wilson’s "The Piano Lesson." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) Boy ...

Based on the play by August Wilson, “The Piano Lesson” casts Deadwyler as Berniece, a widowed mother at odds with her brother, Boy Willie (John David Washington), in post-Depression-era ...

In Netflix's "The Piano Lesson," Malcolm Washington goes beyond the edges of August Wilson's Pittsburgh drama. Review.