Vi says she’s always been busy, and she puts her age down to “an onion and a bottle of beer, every day,” as well as having “a ...

Berg uses his time on stage to take the audience on a trip through the ages that is equal parts documentary and history lesson. One way he does this ... He played the piano amazing. Does anybody ...

Spring 2009 Compiled by Ed Goedeken, Coordinator of Collections, Iowa State University. Originally appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of the LHRT Newsletter. Entries are grouped by geographical area.

Ghosts are everywhere in The Piano Lesson, and no matter what shape they take, they persistently haunt the protagonists of ...

Based on the August Wilson play about the complex weight of Black lineage, Malcolm Washington's feature-length directorial ...

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

How Malcolm Washington paid homage to his family legacy with directorial debut 'The Piano Lesson': 'A big part of this was ...

“The Piano Lesson” is a Washington family affair: Denzel producing, son John David starring, other son Malcolm directing, older daughter Katia on board as executive producer, and Malcolm’s ...

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

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.

But it is Washington’s kids — John David Washington, Malcolm Washington and executive producer Katia Washington — who have taken the baton for “The Piano Lesson,” one of Wilson’s two ...

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 ...