The Piano Lesson adapts the famous stage play with flair. Like any good stage-to-screen translation, The Piano Lesson retains room for its actors to play.

The Piano Lesson premiered at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival. The film is 127 minutes long and rated PG-13 for strong language, violent content, some suggestive references and smoking.

The latest adaptation of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” premiered Friday on Netflix. “The Piano Lesson” is set in 1939 and centers Boy Willie (John David Washington), who travels ...

Playwright August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” comes down to this: A sister and brother, haunted by the violent disruption of their Mississippi childhoods, reunite in 1936 Pittsburgh.

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 ...

Samuel L. Jackson stars in The Piano Lesson as Doaker Charles, a part he previously played on Broadway in 2022. You might know him as Marvel’s Nick Fury or from his roles in iconic films like ...

In “The Piano Lesson,” August Wilson’s 1987 play, the piano is a central symbol of heritage, the past and survival. In 1930s Pittsburgh, it sits, unplayed, ...

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 ...

The clash over an heirloom piano threatens to tear a family apart in The Piano Lesson. The family drama is based on August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play.

The Piano Lesson adapts the famous stage play with flair. John David Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Potts, and Ray Fisher in "The Piano lesson." Credit: David Lee / Netflix.

The piano on the set of “The Piano Lesson” was not a mere prop. It could be played and the cast members often did. It was adorned with pictures of the Washington family and their ancestors.

The piano on the set of “The Piano Lesson” was not a mere prop. It could be played and the cast members often did. It was adorned with pictures of the Washington family and their ancestors.