“LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s star-studded Broadway revival of August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson,’ is, in a word, magnificent,” Helen Shaw writes.
August Wilson
Hints of the supernatural glimmer in Wilson’s magisterial American Century Cycle , his epic project to write ten landmark dramas, each addressing a decade of the twentieth century. Nine of the Century plays take place in Wilson’s native Hill District, Pittsburgh’s storied center of Black culture, and, though they each stand alone, a faint, barely heard thread does connect them.
Danielle Brooks stars as Berniece and Samuel L. Jackson portrays Doaker Charles in LaTanya Richardson Jackson’s revival of August Wilson’s enigmatic play.Brother and sister are at loggerheads over what to do with their most valuable heirloom, a piano carved with portraits of their ancestors. In the face of Boy Willie’s obvious machinations, Berniece is implacable.
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