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Spoiler alert! We're discussing important plot points and the ending of “The Piano Lesson” (streaming now on Netflix), so beware if you haven’t seen it yet. “The Piano Lesson” is the ...

I started collecting when I was seven years old,” B.A. Murray told me. He is from Carbondale, Illinois, and sitting dead ...

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and in recent years his work has been a rich source for some of the best movies in their respective years. That situation has a chance to repeat itself with The Piano Lesson, another Wilson play. "Set ...

Through flashbacks, the film follows the story of the Charles family, who were enslaved and then a mother and daughter were traded for the piano by their enslaver Sutter (Jay Peterson). The patriarch, ...

When I started to watch The Piano Lesson, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I had only read a vague synopsis of the plot—a tale about a Black family's relationship with a special heirloom during the ...

After supporting roles in “The Harder They Fall” and “Station Eleven” established her as an actress to watch, Deadwyler’s career breakthrough came two years ago with the film “Till ...

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 ...

When I watched it again this weekend in my house, streaming via the film’s permanent home on Netflix, the scene remained an impressive display of the intense power of playwright August Wilson ...

“Years from now, we can always come back to ‘The Piano Lesson’ and say, ‘Our story's there, our faces are there, our voices are there and our heart is there.' ...