The latest adaptation of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” premiered Friday on Netflix. “The Piano Lesson” is set in 1939 and centers Boy Willie (John David Washington), who travels from Mississippi ...

The latest adaptation of August Wilson’s acclaimed play, The Piano Lesson, premiered on Netflix, bringing the powerful narrative to a new audience. Set in 1939, the film follows Boy Willie, portrayed ...

Based 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 ...

Plans for the Netflix drama follow Jackson and Washington wrapping a Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play about African Americans wrestling with the painful past. By ...

At heart, August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is a ghost story. Set in 1930s Pittsburgh (other than a brief prologue in 1911 Mississippi), it’s the story of the Charles family, literally haunted by ...

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DALLAS — Dallas' Erykah Badu will star in a Netflix adaptation of an iconic American play. Badu will play a musical role in the new film adaptation of 'The Piano Lesson'. Her character is named ...