Review: ‘The Piano Lesson’ on Broadway stars Samuel L. Jackson and reveals August Wilson’s new status
NEW YORK — For anyone who knows how hard August Wilson once struggled to get his plays financed and produced on Broadway with mostly unknown actors from his informal repertory company from the hinterlands, the writer’s newly vaulted Gotham status is nothing short of amazing.
Now comes a starry, enjoyable Broadway revival of “The Piano Lesson” at the Barrymore Theatre, one of the 10 plays in the late, great Bard of Pittsburgh’s famous cycle of Black American life in the
