Winner! 2013 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Revival of a Play
Winner! 2013 Off Broadway Alliance Award, Best Play Revival
It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family’s rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated.
An intimate story of a brother and sister and their struggle to embrace or deny their epic inheritance, full of soaring poetry and shattering intensity, The Piano Lesson is a universal story of memory and perseverance.
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
TUESDAY thru THURSDAY @ 7:30 PM
FRIDAY & SATURDAY @ 8 PM
SATURDAY & SUNDAY @ 2 PM
Age Guidance: 16
Show Notes: 1 Intermission
Audience Advisory:
Adult language.