How ‘The Piano Lesson’ Uses Music to Excavate America’s Dark History of Slavery
Director Malcolm Washington, star Erykah Badu, and more on how the film adaptation of August Wilson's play draws on blues, ...
‘Nickel Boys’ and ‘The Piano Lesson’ Lead the 2025 AAFCA Awards
The African American Film Critics Association has announced its honorees for the 16th annual AAFCA Awards and the 2025 AAFCA ...
I Just Saw ‘The Piano Lesson’ & I Did *Not* Expect It to Hit This Close to Home
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 ...
Wrestling with the ghosts of 'The Piano Lesson'
The August Wilson adaptation “The Piano Lesson" is an impassioned family drama but it is also a profound ghost story ...
‘Sings The Song Of A People’: As The Piano Lesson Hits Netflix, Critics Weigh In On The ‘Potent’ Family Drama
All that being said, I don't think that The Piano Lesson is a perfect film. The movie's pacing and runtime bogged it down at ...
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Wrestling with the ghosts of 'The Piano Lesson'
I live for those moments.” For the actors, finding the music of “The Piano Lesson” meant channeling generations worth of pain and perseverance in Black American life. Much of it they ...
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The Piano Lesson Review
There are certainly lively scenes — such as the opening piano-heist flashback, set during Fourth Of July festivities; some pleasingly kinetic musical-hall sequences featuring music legend Erykah ...