This film adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play falters in some specifics, but is still vital viewing. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed ...

The Shakespeare & Company production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” proves why the play, first produced on Broadway in 1990, deserved winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama as well as the Tony ...

Ross Bonaime is the Senior Film Editor at Collider. He is a Virginia-based critic, writer, and editor who has written about all forms of entertainment for Paste Magazine, Brightest Young Things, ...

Full of standout sequences, Washington’s uneven August Wilson adaptation introduces a new directorial talent and Oscar contender. “The Piano Lesson” opens in 1911 Mississippi, as Fourth of July ...

Denzel Washington executive produces a powerful adaptation of a major American play, directed by one son (Malcolm) and starring another (John David). Berniece has an adult brother called Boy Willie, ...

Storied actor Denzel Washington has taken on the project of adapting August Wilson’s cycle of 10 plays that portray slices of Black life in each decade of the 1900s. But it is Washington’s kids — John ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. Set in the mid-1930s, the ...