A Romare Bearden print served as a starting point for the American playwright's 1987 drama, which follows a Black family's ...

Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington discuss playwright August Wilson's rhythm and universality, their Grammy-winning co-star, and more.

Like Joplin, Chet Atkins was born poor. He grew up in East Tennessee and later said that “[w]e were so poor and everybody ...

John David Washington, who appeared as Boy Willie in the 2023 Broadway revival of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson, is reprising the role in the new film adaptation and recently shared some of the ...

Taken as a whole, they present a panorama of the Black American experience over 100 years — the still-fresh wounds of slavery, the Great Migration north, the ghosts that come along. Wilson died in ...

Samuel L. Jackson returns to "The Piano Lesson" 37 years after performing in the August Wilson play when Wilson was still working on the play.