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The Piano Lesson marks The Milwaukee Rep’s ninth production in Wilson’s American Century Cycle. For those unfamiliar, this stunning feat is Wilson’s magnum opus: a ten-part series of plays showcasing ...

The piano at the heart of August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson" is a complicated legacy. Once it belonged to Southern slave-owning families. But intricate portraits of members of the Charles family, who ...

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August Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson" is running at the Detroit Repertory Theatre through March 15. The play centers on a family dispute over an heirloom piano in 1936 Pittsburgh. This production ...

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During the latter decades of the 20 th century, the works penned by a racially mixed, high school dropout from the economically depressed Hill District area of Pittsburgh began to cause a rumble ...

Shakespeare & Company (S&Co.), under the Artistic Direction of Allyn Burrows, is now presenting August Wilson’s THE PIANO LESSON in collaboration with Actors’ Shakespeare Project in the Boston area of ...

LENOX — Set in Pittsburgh's Hill District in 1936, August Wilson’s "The Piano Lesson” is the fourth play in his 10-play American Century Cycle — one play for each decade — tracking the migration of ...

Billy Joel’s 1973 track “Piano Man” is a beautiful example of the songwriter’s ability to combine autobiographical experiences with conjured imagery and characters to create a song that, despite its ...