A casual game turns into a learning moment when a chess grandmaster steps in. Instead of flashy tactics, the lesson comes through quiet moves, timing, and understanding the position. Small details ...

Milwaukee Repertory Theater will continue its season with one of the most powerful works in the American canon, August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson, running February 24–March 22 in the Ellen & Joe ...

Robert Irwin's biggest competition might just be in his family — and she already has "all 10s" on her quest for the Mirrorball Trophy! The Dancing with the Stars contestant, 21, prepared for his ...

During the latter decades of the 20 th century, the works penned by a racially mixed, high school dropout from the economically depressed Hill District area of Pittsburgh began to cause a rumble ...

The Shakespeare & Company production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” proves why the play, first produced on Broadway in 1990, deserved winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama as well as the Tony ...

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Omar Robinson’s Boy Willie wants to stake his legacy by selling the family piano so he can buy Mississippi farmland from the Sutters, the family who enslaved Boy Willie’s ancestors, in “The Piano ...

LENOX — Set in Pittsburgh's Hill District in 1936, August Wilson’s "The Piano Lesson” is the fourth play in his 10-play American Century Cycle — one play for each decade — tracking the migration of ...

From left: “ranney," Omar Robison, Ariel Phillips and Jade Guerra in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of August Wilson’s "The Piano Lesson." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) Boy Willie is the ...

When “The Piano Lesson’s” hair designer Andrea Mona Bowman was first told she was tasked to create a wig for singer Erykah Badu, she was elated. She immediately began designing what would be fitting ...