The Piano Lesson is part of Wilson’s 10-play American Century Cycle and includes Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, with the latter’s film adaptation on Netflix earning five Oscar nominations and two wins: for best makeup and hairstyling, and best costume design. The Netflix adaptation of The Piano Lesson will be executive produced by Constanza Romero, Jennifer Roth and Katia Washington, Denzel’s daughter.

In 2016, the film adaptation of Fences earned three Academy Awards nominations - for best picture, best actor and best adapted screenplay - and an Academy Award win for Viola Davis. In 2010, Denzel Washington and Davis both earned Tony Awards for their revival of Fences on Broadway. 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 is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor and polished with the tears and blood of their late mother. The ensemble cast for the movie adaptation includes Ray Fisher, Till actress Danielle Deadwyler, Michael Potts and Corey Hawkins. Jackson, on Broadway opposite Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson’s stage drama about African Americans wrestling with the painful past. The Piano Lesson screen adaptation follows LaTanya Richardson Jackson directing her husband, Samuel L. A battle is brewing in the Charles household. Denzel Washington will produce the film along with Todd Black. The Piano Lesson is the fourth play in Wilson’s American Century Cycle, and premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in 1987 starring a then-39-year-old Jackson as Boy Willie, the role that will. Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, The Piano Lesson is set in Pittsburgh’s Hill District in 1936. Viola Davis Reveals Directing Ambitions at Chaplin Awards Galaĭenzel’s son Malcolm Washington will direct the film adaptation of The Piano Lesson, based on a screenplay he penned with Virgil Williams. John David Washington appeared on American Masters: Creative Spark to talk about his North Carolina roots, how he got into acting and what it was like for him working on The Piano Lesson.

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