‘The Piano Lesson’ Theater Review: A Worthy Revival Showcases Exciting Young Talent
August Wilson, widely considered one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th Century, was the bard of the black experience. Wilson’s play The Piano Lesson, part of his American Century Cycle, with one play representing each decade of the African-American experience, is set in 1953. An engaging revival of the 1990 play, which is directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson, is now heating up Broadway, telling the tale of generational trauma through the Charles family’s fighting over a haunted piano. Bernice (Danielle Brooks) fights with brother Willie Boy (John David Washington, son of Denze...