The influence of Sister Rosetta Tharpe can be heard in the work of some of the greats of rock and roll - from Elvis to Johnny ...

August Wilson's play "The Piano Lesson" is running at the Detroit Repertory Theatre through March 15. The play centers on a family dispute over an heirloom piano in 1936 Pittsburgh. This production ...

Dave Brubeck called her a great and Mary Lou Williams gave her advice. But the prodigy grew frustrated with jazz, quit and started dismantling her instrument. A superb new reissue showcases her ...

A new piano bar and jazz club is joining Fondren’s entertainment scene this week.Louise’s, a cocktail-forward lounge inspired by the golden age of jazz and classic Hollywood style, will open to the ...

THE STORY. THIS PIANO IS AT THE CENTER OF THE STORY. IN AUGUST WILSON’S THE PIANO LESSON. IT’S A FAMILY HEIRLOOM, AND IT IS THE CENTER OF CONFLICT BETWEEN BOY WILLIE AND BERNIE’S BROTHER AND SISTER. I ...

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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LENOX — A haunting, unresolved past comes home to roost, almost with a vengeance, in August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” the fourth play in his American Century Cycle — 10 plays, one in each decade of ...

Shakespeare & Company (S&Co.), under the Artistic Direction of Allyn Burrows, is now presenting August Wilson’s THE PIANO LESSON in collaboration with Actors’ Shakespeare Project in the Boston area of ...

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 ...