My earliest memories of my father, composer Paul Sheftel, are at the piano. After each lesson, I would draw a small picture to accompany the piece he had just composed for me, and together we would ...

“Everybody’s got to travel,” says Doaker, played by actor Jefferson A. Russell in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” at Everyman Theatre. “If you stay in one place, you get stuck with the same thing.” ...

French filmmaker Quentin Dupieux is one of the most singular voices working in comedy right now, creating satires that are often unclassifiable and incomparable to the work of anyone else. His latest ...

THE STORY. THIS PIANO IS AT THE CENTER OF THE STORY. IN AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON. IT’S A FAMILY HEIRLOOM, AND IT IS THE CENTER OF CONFLICT BETWEEN BOY WILLIE AND BERNIE’S BROTHER AND SISTER. I ...

LENOX, MASS. — The Shakespeare & Company production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” proves why the play, first produced on Broadway in 1990, deserved winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama as well ...

LOGAN, Utah — The 2025 Utah State University Summer Piano Festival will welcome young pianists from across the region for a dynamic week of music-making, collaboration and creativity. As part of the ...

"My name is Glenn Lowry and I'm the director of the Museum of Modern Art. I chose “Untitled (1964)” to look at by Kazuo Shiraga. It's an incredible painting that is really a mass of swirling colors, ...

Everyman has announced its 2025/2026 season, a six-show lineup featuring its 18-member ensemble of resident actors in productions that embody the company’s three-decade legacy of building incredible ...

Travel back to 1930s Tokyo, some three decades before Yoko Ono joined New York City’s flourishing downtown art scene and her conceptual artist’s book Grapefruit (1964) emerged as a seminal work of the ...

Omar Robinson is nothing short of sensational in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s staging of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” at Hibernian Hall — an outstanding production that reminds us, once again, ...

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 Willie is the ...

Jan. 7 (UPI) --Netflix film The Piano Lesson led the field with 14 NAACP Image Award nominations on Tuesday. The drama, based on the August Wilson play of the same name, stars John David Washington ...