The latest adaptation of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” premiered Friday on Netflix. “The Piano Lesson” is set in 1939 and centers Boy Willie (John David Washington), who travels from Mississippi to Pittsburgh with his friend Lymon (Ray Fisher) to sell watermelons and convince his sister Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler) to sell their family heirloom,

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The latest adaptation of August Wilson's acclaimed play, "The Piano Lesson," premiered on Netflix , brings the powerful narrative to a new audience.

MY SAY This is a story told largely inside the Charles home, engaging with the ghosts of the past and the pain of repressed memories as exemplified by the piano. It is heavy with metaphor and symbolism, exploring the ways in which the objects passed down through generations carry with them the burdens of history.

The Piano Lesson — Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington and Erykah Badu star in a new adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning stage play about the conflicting agendas of a Black American family. Hopefully, the narrative can survive being transplanted from Pittsburgh to Badu-land. (Netflix)

Netflix’s “The Piano Lesson,” starring John David Washington and Danielle Deadwyler, is based on August Wilson’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name.

When playwright August Wilson died in 2005, theater critic Charles Isherwood — writing for the New York Times — called him “theater’s poet of Black America.” His enduring legacy to

When I started to watch The Piano Lesson, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I had only read a vague synopsis of the plot—a tale about a Black family's relationship with a special heirloom during the aftermath of the Great Depression.

August Wilson’s 1987 play is opened up in ways that that work—and some that don’t—in this beautifully acted film adaptation.