Painted as war raged, ‘The Piano Lesson’ is both sensuous and severe Henri Matisse painted this inexpressibly moving painting in the summer of 1916, in the early days of the Somme offensive ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1634): I can’t stand the overused term “masterpiece,” but I’ll happily use it of Henri Matisse’s Piano Lesson, one of the truly great pictures at the Museum of Modern Art ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.