John David Washington as Boy Willie, Samuel L. Jackson as Doaker Charles, Michael Potts as Wining Boy and Ray Fisher as Lymon in 'The Piano Lesson.' Storied actor Denzel Washington has taken on the ...

Samuel L. Jackson as Doaker Charles in “The Piano Lesson.” (David Lee/Netflix) ATLANTA — Samuel L. Jackson has a long history with the acclaimed August Wilson play “The Piano Lesson.” He first ...

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.

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for "The Piano Lesson." The stars of “The Piano Lesson” had quite the spiritual experience by the time the Netflix movie came to its dramatic end. Based ...

The entirety of the action in August Wilson’s THE PIANO LESSON unfolds in a single place - a house in Pittsburgh's Hill District, in the mid-1930s. That domicile, home to Doaker Charles, his niece, ...

“Everybody’s got to travel,” says Doaker, played by actor Jefferson A. Russell in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” at Everyman Theatre. “If you stay in one place, you get stuck with the same thing.” ...

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 ...

Full of standout sequences, Washington’s uneven August Wilson adaptation introduces a new directorial talent and Oscar contender. “The Piano Lesson” opens in 1911 Mississippi, as Fourth of July ...

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 ...

Samuel L. Jackson has a long history with the acclaimed August Wilson play “The Piano Lesson.” He first performed lead character Boy Willie at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 198 7. Three years later, ...

Storied actor Denzel Washington has taken on the project of adapting August Wilson’s cycle of 10 plays that portray slices of Black life in each decade of the 1900s. But it is Washington’s kids — John ...

Storied actor Denzel Washington has taken on the project of adapting August Wilson’s cycle of 10 plays that portray slices of Black life in each decade of the 1900s. But it is Washington’s kids — John ...