August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson on Broadway Interview

A ghost haunts the family at the center of The Piano ­Lesson, August Wilson’s keen reflection on the reverberations of slavery through its descendants’ pursuit of the American dream. “There is something spiritual and metaphysical in our lives standing in for those things that we don’t face,” says LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who directs her husband Samuel L. Jackson in the Pulitzer-winning ­drama’s first Broadway revival, currently at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre. The Piano Lesson is part of Wilson’s sweeping Century Cycle, a series of 10 plays, nearly all set in Pittsburgh, that chronicle Black life in each decade of the… Read Full Article