‘The Piano Lesson’
Commemorate Juneteenth with this gripping adaptation of August Wilson’s Pittsburgh-set play.
June 19 @ 7:15 pm – 9:30 pm
The Lindsay is partnering with the Sewickley Community Center’s Juneteenth Committee for a special presentation of The Piano Lesson in observance of Juneteenth.
This screening will take place on Thursday, June 19, at 7:15 p.m. General admission tickets are on sale for $11.
The Piano Lesson is a 2024 cinematic reinvention of Pittsburgh playwright August Wilson’s groundbreaking 1987 play. This supernaturally tinged tale is set in 1930s Pittsburgh and follows the brewing conflict between two siblings with vastly different ideas about what to do with an heirloom piano that physically displays their enslaved ancestors’ stories.
This take on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play is the third Wilson adaptation produced by Denzel Washington, following 2016’s Fences and 2020’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. The Piano Lesson was a family affair: It stars John David Washington, Denzel’s eldest son, and was the feature directorial debut of Malcolm Washington, the Oscar winner’s youngest son.
The film also stars Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler, Ray Fisher, Michael Potts, Corey Hawkins and Skylar Aleece Smith. The Piano Lesson currently holds a cumulative critics’ score of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes.
“The Piano Lesson brings another powerful August Wilson play to the screen,” raves The Wrap. “With performances that will resonate and a directorial debut that will not soon be forgotten, The Piano Lesson is a lesson in love, friendship and family.”
