Reflecting on Romare Bearden's art, playwright August Wilson wrote, “What I saw was Black life presented on its own terms, on a grand and epic scale, with all its richness and fullness.” David Lee / ...

August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson is about a conflict in a Black family over whether to keep an exquisite heirloom piano — or to sell it to buy the land their family was ...

It's the third movie to be adapted from August Wilson's 10-play series. If good intentions were all, this screen version of "The Piano Lesson" would earn high marks. But wishing doesn't make it so.

He’s not in The Piano Lesson (now on Netflix), but we’ll lead with Denzel Washington anyway. This is the third August Wilson play Washington has helped adapt to film – he produced Ma Rainey’s Black ...

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s buzziest movies continues with Netflix‘s The Piano Lesson, the adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning August ...

Carolyn Jenkins is a voracious consumer of film and television. She graduated from Long Island University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Producing where she learned the art of character, plot, and ...

The musical instrument sitting over in the corner, idle but not gathering dust, at the center of August Wilson’s Pulitzer-winning play The Piano Lesson is more than just a piano. It’s a family ...

Liam Gaughan is a film and TV writer at Collider. He has been writing film reviews and news coverage for ten years. Between relentlessly adding new titles to his watchlist and attending as many ...

The vibes were electric from a full theater at the Telluride Film Festival in anticipation of Malcolm Washington’s directorial debut, “The Piano Lesson.” After Washington humbly thanked everyone for ...