A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's ...

An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” ...

With stories spanning the 1900s to the 1990s, legendary Black American playwright August Wilson’s ... Speaking on the orbit ...

The result is “Clemente,” which leads off the 43 rd annual Three Rivers Film Festival on Wed., Nov. 13, with a screening at ...

Samuel L. Jackson returns to "The Piano Lesson" 37 years after performing in the August Wilson play when Wilson was still working on the play.

At heart, August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is a ghost story. Set in 1930s Pittsburgh (other than a brief prologue in 1911 ...

an August Wilson play adaptation. "Niija's creative relationships with established and upcoming filmmakers, like Tyler Perry, ...

An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which ...

It’s an instrument in two senses: You can play it, but it also carries its own will. The playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. ^ The second Pittsburgh-set ...

But wishing doesn't make it so. And this muddled film adaptation of the Pulitzer prize-winning play by August Wilson, now in theaters in advance of its Netflix debut on Nov. 22, is a mixed bag.

An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson.” Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm ...