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NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING SAMUEL L. JACKSON

A powerful exploration of the legacy of slavery in America, The Piano Lesson centers on a brother and sister in 1930s Pittsburgh as they argue over whether to sell the family piano, an instrument tainted by the wages of slavery. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in... Read Full Overview

Winner 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Winner 1990 Drama Desk Award, Outstanding New Play

Nominee 1990 Tony Award, Best Play

Nominee 2013 Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play

Nominee 2013 Drama League Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play

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A Pulitzer Prize-winner. Brother is pitted against sister over the fate of their heirloom piano.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play, this modern American classic is about family, and the legacy of slavery in America. August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about... Read Full Overview

A Pulitzer Prize-winner. Brother is pitted against sister over the fate of their heirloom piano.