In Shakespeare and Company’s moving production of "The Piano Lesson," a gifted cast brings August Wilson’s haunting tale of ...

Not just any piano. This one is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor. A quick cut jumps us to 1936 Pittsburgh, where the piano sits in the home of Doaker Charles (the great Samuel ...

August Wilson's supernatural-tinged family drama soars in this intimate co-production with the Actors' Shakespeare Project ...

In “The Piano Lesson,” it’s Pittsburgh, 1936, in the house of Doaker Charles (Samuel L. Jackson), an old railroad worker who is now a train cook.

For more than 50 years, Cornelia Vertenstein, 92, has taught piano lessons from her home in Denver. Every week, through all those years, a parade of children came to her door, books in hand.