![]() ![]() ![]() When is The Piano Lesson’s release date?ĭirector Malcolm Washington is about to begin production, so stay tuned. Berniece is also reluctant to sell the piano because it is a reminder of her father, who was. ![]() The piano has been in the family for generations, and it represents her African-American heritage. Jackson ( Pulp Fiction, The Avengers) and John David Washington ( BlacKkKlansman, Tenet) reprise their roles from the 2022 Broadway revival, alongside Ray Fisher ( Zack Snyder’s Justice League, this year’s Rebel Moon), Danielle Deadwyler ( Till, The Harder They Fall), Michael Potts ( Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, the upcoming Rustin) and Corey Hawkins ( Straight Outta Compton, In the Heights). In the play The Piano Lesson, by August Wilson, the character Berniece is reluctant to sell the family’s heirloom piano. Washington has a deep connection to Wilson’s work: He directed and starred in 2016’s Fences, produced Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, and in the past has spoken of his desire to complete the cycle on screen. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh during the aftermath of the Great Depression, The Piano Lesson follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which documents the family history through carvings made by their enslaved ancestor. Read on to learn more about this particular Lesson. ![]() The new film carries over much of the cast from the show’s recent Broadway revival - including Samuel L. Seven years after his Oscar-nominated performance in Fences, Denzel Washington is returning to the world of August Wilson: The actor/director/producer/national treasure is producing a new adaptation of the late playwright’s The Piano Lesson. ![]()
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