Hi, I’m Malcolm Washington, the co-writer and director of “The Piano Lesson.” So this scene here ... and stolen from the white Mississippi man who once enslaved members of this family.

Warning: This article contains major spoilers for "The Piano Lesson." The stars of “The Piano Lesson” had quite the spiritual experience by the time the Netflix movie came to its dramatic end.

But the past is present in “The Piano Lesson,” which is set in 1936, but haunted by history. Upstairs lurks a ghost of the white man whose family “owned” theirs, and from whom their father ...

Ariel Phillips and Jade Guerra in Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s production of August Wilson’s "The Piano Lesson." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios) Boy Willie is the kind of man who is always ...

He’s not in The Piano Lesson (now on Netflix), but we’ll lead ... They escape, but one man stays behind, and ends up running into the woods as White men torch his shack. Twenty-five years ...

But it is Washington’s kids — John David Washington, Malcolm Washington and executive producer Katia Washington — who have taken the baton for “The Piano Lesson,” one of Wilson’s two ...

Jackson, John David Washington and Ray Fisher in The Piano Lesson. Courtesy of Netflix Washington gives an incendiary performance as a man demonically possessed by the idea that ownership of the ...

David Lee / Netflix The Piano Lesson was the play that confirmed August ... For Boy Willie, the piano is its cold cash value—the stake for a free man’s future.” Wilson’s play has seen ...

Part family melodrama and part ghost story, The Piano Lesson centers on the Charles family ... time I see Kerry James Marshall’s Invisible Man series,” remembers Washington.

TORONTO (AP) — August Wilson ’s “The Piano Lesson” deals profoundly with ancestry ... firmly established himself as his own leading man in Hollywood, Malcolm, an alum of the American ...