1. The Piano Lesson - Full Cast & Crew - TV Guide
Boy Willie: Charles Dutton. Berneice: Alfre Woodard. Doaker: Carl Gordon. Lymon: Courtney B. Vance. Wining Boy: Lou Myers. Avery: Tommy Hollis. Maretha: Zelda ...
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2. The Piano Lesson (1995) — The Movie Database (TMDB)
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it.
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim
3. The Piano Lesson | Filmpedia, the Films Wiki
Cast · Charles S. Dutton as Boy Willie · Alfre Woodard as Berniece Charles · Carl Gordon as Doaker · Tommy Hollis as Avery · Lou Myers as Wining Boy · Courtney B.
The Piano Lesson is a 1995 American television drama film directed by Lloyd Richards which aired on February 5, 1995 on the CBS network. It is based on August Wilson's 1987 play of the same name. Set in Pittsburgh in the 1930s, the film follows an African-American family struggling to retain their heritage in the form of a history told in the carvings on the family piano where sharecropper Boy Willie wants to sell it in order to buy farmland, but his sister, Berniece refuses to sell it. Charles
4. The Piano Lesson | Rotten Tomatoes
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Boy Willie (Charles Dutton), a sharecropper, travels to Pittsburgh in the 1930s hoping that his sister, Berniece Charles (Alfre Woodard), will let him have the piano that their enslaved uncle engraved in pre--Civil War Mississippi. Willie hopes to parlay proceeds from selling the instrument into ownership of the land his uncle once worked. But when Berniece has other ideas, it becomes clear that the piano represents very different things to the siblings.
5. The Piano Lesson (1995) directed by Lloyd Richards • Reviews, film + cast
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it.
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-Americans as well as some of the attitudes and influences on their lives. But whether he is able to sell the piano so that he can get enough money to buy some property and "no longer have to work for someone else" involves the story (or lesson) that the piano has to show him.
6. The Piano Lesson (Hallmark Hall Of Fame) - Television Academy
The Piano Lesson (Hallmark Hall Of Fame): awards, nominations, photos and more at Emmys.com.
7. Cast & Creative - The Piano Lesson
CAST · SAMUEL L. JACKSON · JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON · DANIELLE BROOKS · TRAI BYERS · APRIL MATTHIS · RAY FISHER · MICHAEL POTTS · NADIA DANIEL.
August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork THE PIANO LESSON returns to Broadway in the event of the season, starring Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, and Danielle Brooks, directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson.
8. All the celebrities that have starred in 'The Piano Lesson'
13 okt 2022 · Alfre Woodard played Berniece in the television film adaptation of The Piano Lesson in 1995, a performance that earned her a SAG Award and an ...
Lots of stars have flocked to August Wilson's Pulitzer-winning play on stage and screen. Read more on New York Theatre Guide.
9. The Piano Lesson - Variety
The truths taught in "The Piano Lesson" are that family legacies can neither be repressed nor discarded. The other maxim offered ... Jan 29, 1995 11:00pm PT ...
The truths taught in "The Piano Lesson" are that family legacies can neither be repressed nor discarded. The other maxim offered by the "Hallmark Hall of Fame's" production of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play is that there is clearly a home on commercial television for serious, literate theater.
