Dawidziak, Mark
August Wilson, the late acclaimed American playwright, chronicled some of the best stories about African American experiences using deeply humanized and comprehensive storytelling. Some of his notable theater works includeFencesandMa Rainey’s Black Bottom, both of which have been adapted into film. De...
with the late playwright the only credited writer on the film. WhileMa Rainey’s Black Bottomand, now,The Piano Lessonalso stick closely to their source texts, each has its own adapted screenplay, reflecting a different approach to stage-to-screen translation—one that,...
Washington:That’s the only time I’ll do it in this episode, just so I can stay on a hot streak here. I’ll start with you, Yvonne. We have “The Piano Lesson” with a couple of brothers in this in Malcolm and John David Washington, I would imagine it was cool...
As Sam Pollard, director of the PBS special - August Wilson: The Ground of Which I Stand, asserts, August Wilson may be regarded as an American Shakespeare, for “his body of work really covers the whole 20th century of American history…and there is no other American playwright who did ...
On Jan. 7, August Wilson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame— a fitting tribute for a Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright who is one of the most celebrated and important American storytellers of the last 50 years. But there’s a touch of irony to that Hollywood ...
"The Piano Lesson"(November 8) – Denzel Washington, who starred in and directed a film adaptation of August Wilson's "Fences," is producing films based on the entire oeuvre of the acclaimed playwright. Following 2020's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Washington has now produced his third...
August Wilson was aPulitzer Prizewinning playwright whose most famous work was a series of plays calledThe Pittsburgh Cycle. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985 for Fences – which also received aTony Award– and in 1990 for The Piano Lesson. ...
For Deadwyler, the message at the heart of “The Piano Lesson” — confronting the traumas of the past in order to create a better future — feels deeply relevant. “We have to face our history, honor it, and learn from it if we’re going to move forward together.” ...
August Wilson was an American playwright (1945 - 2005) whose work mostly comprised writing about Black America. During his life, he won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama in addition to a Tony Award. In 2006, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. His play The Piano...