See The Piano Lesson from the 2 best seats in the house! Plus, meet the Tony Winning set designer Beowulf Boritt via Zoom!
August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork The Piano Lesson returns to Broadway in the event of the season, starring Academy Award® winner Samuel L. Jackson, Screen Actors Guild Award® nominee John David Washington, and Tony® and Emmy® nominee Danielle Brooks, directed by Tony nominee LaTanya Richardson Jackson. A battle is brewing in the Charles household. At the center lies the family’s prized heirloom piano. On one side, a brother plans to build the family fortune by selling it. On the other, a sister will go to any length to keep it and preserve the family history. Only their uncle stands in between. But even he can’t hold back the ghosts of the past. The Piano Lesson is the play for now. It reaches into the souls of the present, revealing startling truths about how we perceive our past—and who gets to define our legacy.
Beowulf Boritt is currently represented on Broadway by Selina Fillinger's POTUS directed by Susan Stroman, and Sankoff & Hein's Come From Away directed by Chris Ashley. He designed the Tony Award® winning set for James Lapine's Act One. He has received four additional Tony Award® nominations for his designs for Susan Stroman's production of Kander and Ebb’s The Scottsboro Boys, Susan Stroman's production of Selina Fillinger's POTUS, James Lapine's production of Kitt, Korie & Lapine's Flying Over Sunset (for which he won a Drama Desk award), and Evan Cabnet's production of Therese Raquin. His book about set design, Transforming Space Over Time, is available on Amazon. He designed Harold Prince's final Broadway shows: David Thompson's Prince of Broadway and Alfred Uhry’s LoveMusik. He designed Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Sondheim on Sondheim, and Finn and Sheinkin's The Twenty-Fifth Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, both directed by Mr. Lapine. He designed Steve Martin's Meteor Shower directed by Jerry Zaks and Menken, Slater, and Palminteri's A Bronx Tale co-directed by Robert DeNiro and Mr. Zaks. Other Broadway shows include Lin-Manuel Miranda, Thomas Kail, and Anthony Veneziale's Freestyle Love Supreme directed by Mr. Kail, the New York and Russian productions of Chaplin for director Warren Carlyle, John Rando's revival of On The Town, Rob Askins' Hand To God directed by Moritz Von Stuelpnagel, and the long running Broadway and international hit Rock of Ages directed by Kristin Hanggi. He and his work have been called "feverishly inventive" (New York Times), "visionary" (Playbill), "miraculous" (New Yorker), "a scene-stealing master builder" (Architectural Digest) and "a genius guy who does crazy sets." (Mel Brooks).