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. The play focuses on the arguments between a brother and a sister who have different ideas on what to do with the piano. The brother, Boy Willie, is a sharecropper who wants to sell the piano to buy the land (Sutter's land) where his ancestors toiled as slaves. The sister, Berniece, remains emphatic about keeping the piano, whic..

Director: Malcolm Washington,

Genre: Drama, Music,

Cast: Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, Ray Fisher, Corey Hawkins, Michael Potts, Skylar Aleece Smith, Stephan James, Erykah Badu, Malik J Ali, Charity Jordan, Isaiah Gunn, Matrell Smith, Jerrika Hinton, Gail Bean, Eilan Joseph, Pauletta Washington, Olivia Washington, Kylee D. Allen, Deetta West, Jay Peterson, David Atkinson, Tony Fox, Melanie Jeffcoat, Owen Harn, Charles Green, Scott Andersen, Saige Aristilde, Nigel Barto, Hasani Vibez Comer,