When I started to watch The Piano Lesson, I wasn't quite sure what to expect. I had only read a vague synopsis of the plot—a tale about a Black family's relationship with a special heirloom during the aftermath of the Great Depression.

“The Piano Lesson” is really only held together by its talented cast and August Wilson’s original work. If you want to watch a film adaptation of this play — without the literal horror moments — just watch the 1995 version, which is streaming on Tubi. — Erin

On a visit to August Wilson’s childhood home, in Pittsburgh, the director of a new adaptation of the play discusses casting his brother (alongside Samuel L. Jackson) and working for his father.

It's been a big weekend for the Washington family. While patriarch Denzel Washington chewed the scenery on multiplex screens in "Gladiator II," the next generation of Washingtons stormed onto streaming with the film adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winner "The Piano Lesson.

The latest adaptation of August Wilson's acclaimed play, "The Piano Lesson," premiered on Netflix , brings the powerful narrative to a new audience.

All that being said, I don't think that The Piano Lesson is a perfect film. The movie's pacing and runtime bogged it down at points, which is no doubt because it's an adaptation of a full stage play.

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The August Wilson adaptation “The Piano Lesson" is an impassioned family drama but it is also a profound ghost story.

Denzel Washington's family comes to the creative fore of Netflix's "The Piano Lesson," the directorial debut of newcomer Malcolm Washington.

Malcolm Washington makes his directorial debut in the new film, “The Piano Lesson,” based on an August Wilson play about an heirloom piano at the center of one family.