The Piano Lesson

August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork THE PIANO LESSON returns to Broadway in the event of the season, starring Academy Award® winner Samuel L. Jackson, Screen Actors Guild Award® nominee John David Washington, and Tony® and Emmy® nominee Danielle Brooks, directed by Tony nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson.

A battle is brewing in the Charles household. At the center lies the family’s prized heirloom piano. On one side, a brother plans to build the family fortune by selling it. On the other, a sister will go to any length to keep it and preserve the family history. Only their uncle stands in between. But even he can’t hold back the ghosts of the past.

THE PIANO LESSON is the play for now. It reaches into the souls of the present, revealing startling truths about how we perceive our past—and who gets to define our legacy.

Limited 17-week engagement through January 15, 2023. Tickets are now on sale. Performances at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre, 243 W. 47th Street, NYC.

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REVIEWS

The Piano Lesson opened on Broadway to rave reviews:

“LATANYA RICHARDSON JACKSON’S STAR-STUDDED BROADWAY REVIVAL of August Wilson’s ‘The Piano Lesson,’ is, in a word, MAGNIFICENT.” – The New Yorker

“THE PIANO LESSON IS A BLISTERINGLY ACTED DRAMA.” – The New York Post

“ABUNDANT MAGIC IN A SPELLBINDING REVIVAL! TOP-NOTCH AND BEAUTIFULLY PERFORMED!” – Deadline

“SAMUEL L. JACKSON AND DANIELLE BROOKS GIVE A BROADWAY MASTERCLASS IN THE PIANO LESSON. An exquisite revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson (Ethel Barrymore Theatre, opening tonight until Jan. 15) is pure dramatic pleasure—a richly involving play, beautifully staged, costumed, played, and directed (by Latanya Richardson Jackson) on a grandly decked-out Broadway stage.” – Daily Beast

“JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON GIVES A MASTER CLASS IN ACTING.” – The Wrap

“HOW TO BOTH HONOR HISTORY AND MOVE BEYOND IT IS THE OVERRIDING THEME of “The Piano Lesson,” one of August Wilson’s finest plays. The new Broadway revival, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson (a noted actor who is married to Mr. Jackson), certainly does an honorable job of breathing new life into the work, which won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1990. Wilson’s plays are so dense with vividly felt experience-not to mention language that is simultaneously earthy and lyrical-that they always captivate.” – The Wall Street Journal

THIS IS A STRAIGHTFORWARD, WELL-ACTED, RICHLY DESIGNED, ENJOYABLE REVIVAL that accentuates the competing passions exhibited by Washington and Brooks and the sincere, warmhearted personalities surrounding both of them, including Jackson, Ray Fisher, Trai Byers, and Michael Potts. – amNY