This film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play falters in some specifics, but is still vital viewing. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

“The Piano Lesson” is the third adaptation from August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle produced by Denzel Washington, following “Fences” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” The piano on the ...

“The Piano Lesson” is a uniquely African American ... the same high note for a percussive effect or plunking discordant chords to convey darkness from the past. When Berniece (Deadwyler ...

The triad is one of the cornerstones of music theory, and vital for creating harmony. We examine the three points of the ...

The Piano Lesson, first staged in 1987, comes complete with thumping titular metaphor. We are in the outskirts of Pittsburgh during the Great Depression. Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler), a black ...

Premiering on Netflix on November 22, 2024, and currently in select theaters, The Piano Lesson brings August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play with a star-studded cast to the screen.

Stories told over a fire on a snowy evening? These questions get a cathartic rumination in The Piano Lesson, the latest August Wilson stage-to-screen adaptation, which premiered at the Telluride ...

The Piano's Brad Kella has revealed he has provided the soundtrack to this year's John Lewis Christmas advert. The musician, who is originally from Bootle, has shot to stardom since he won season ...

Few real-world (read: not ludicrously expensive) products can be considered real game changers in hi-fi, but in 2015 the Chord Mojo burst onto the then ... the leading edges of piano notes are crisper ...

“This is the missing link in the Nick Drake story,” said Joe Boyd. “There, in the piano chords, are the roots of Nick’s harmonies.” He’s right. For years, fans tried to solve the ...

The Piano Lesson is in every sense a teachable affair. Soon enough, school libraries will stock it next to the films of Fences (2016) and of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020), as another example ...