![]() ![]() “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” was released globally on Netflix in 2021 and earned five Oscar nominations, winning for makeup/hairstyling and costume design. Jackson, John David Washington to Star in ‘The Piano Lesson’ Film Adaptation Plans for the Netflix drama follow Jackson and Washington wrapping a Broadway revival of August. ![]() In 2016, Washington directed and starred alongside Davis in the “Fences” film adaptation that received three Academy Award noms and won an Oscar for Davis. In 2010, Denzel Washington and Viola Davis starred in the revival of “Fences” on Broadway” and both won Tonys for their roles. ![]() It’s part of Wilson’s 10-play “American Century Cycle” that also includes “Fences” and “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” SEE Tony odds update: Samuel L. In addition to winning the Pulitzer Prize for drama, the original production of “The Piano Lesson” on Broadway won the New York Drama Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play, the Peabody Award and was nominated for the 1990 Tony Award for Best Play. Set in 1936 Pittsburgh in the aftermath of the Great Depression, “The Piano Lesson” follows the lives of the Charles family in the Doaker Charles household and an heirloom, the family piano, which is decorated with designs carved by an enslaved ancestor. Jackson, John David Washington, Corey Hawkins, Danielle Deadwyler. SEE 2023 Tony Awards slugfest: 22 productions vie for places in Play races The Piano Lesson: Directed by Malcolm Washington. ![]()
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