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The piano lesson theater5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Sparrow Jr., Mark Drew, Renee Freeman and Dwayne Donnell. It’s mid-way through the 10-play cycle “The Piano Lesson,” set in the 1930s, is the fifth the venue’s produced.įrom left: Earl W. Theatre Conspiracy has committed to staging each August Wilson play in the cycle, producing one a year. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington. It was made into a movie in 1995 and is currently being made into a movie for Netflix, starring Samuel L. “The Piano Lesson,” which played on Broadway in 1987, has had an off-Broadway revival and a Broadway revival since then. (The other Pulitzer winner was “Fences.”) They’ve won numerous awards, and two, including “The Piano Lesson,” received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Wilson wrote 10 plays, often called The Pittsburgh Cycle or The Century Cycle, depicting Black life through the twentieth century, a play for each decade. ![]() McCarter directs the production currently running at Theatre Conspiracy in Fort Myers (through April 30.) She’s talking about the piano at the center of August Wilson’s award-winning play, “The Piano Lesson,” an instrument that causes family discord, grief and death. ![]()
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