How Malcolm Washington paid homage to his family legacy with directorial debut 'The Piano Lesson': 'A big part of this was ...
As a Spelman College history major who also holds a master’s degree in American studies from Columbia University, Danielle ...
A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's ...
For the mother of one, the piano, with the faces of their ancestors carved into ... I feel like that’s just been the last 10 ...
The North American Indigenous Songbook is a project that aims to create a new body of vocal works by Native American ...
Film critic Peter Travers reviews "The Piano Lesson," now in theaters in advance of its Netflix debut on Nov. 22.
As with all of Wilson’s plays, the central focus is on the trials and tribulations of Black life in America ... this scene ...
The piano in “The Piano Lesson” is a thing of ... The playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) made it his life’s work to create a cycle of plays in which black Americans weigh the sufferings ...
The enigmatic installation artist shares the thinking behind her minimal yet profound meditations on human existence ...
spooks and shadows lurking when the piano is disturbed. Deadwyler is electric as Berniece, who bears the brunt of the haunting, walking on eggshells in her life, trying to care for her young ...
“The Piano Lesson,” when she suddenly leaned sideways in her chair, twisting her neck at an awkward angle. “I don’t want to mess up my makeup,” said Deadwyler, wiping away tears as she ...
Sixteen years after the last Cure album, Robert Smith has created an unrelentingly serious and sad work unlike anything his ...