"The Piano Lesson" - by August Wilson - Actors' Shakespeare Project (Boston, MA.)
Actors' Shakespeare Project
In Partnership with Hibernian Hall
Presents August Wilson's
"THE PIANO LESSON"
In Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning epic,
the haunting melodies of the past will ignite a family conflict.
Written by August Wilson
Directed by Christopher V. Edwards
In Partnership with Hibernian Hall
Cast Includes: Omar Robinson* as “Boy Willie,” Jade Guerra* as “Berniece,” Anthony T. Goss* as “Lymon,” Jonathan Kitt* as “Doaker Charles,” Brittani J. McBride* as “Grace,” Ariel Phillips as “Maretha,” “ranney,” as “Wining Boy,” Daniel Rios, Jr.* as “Avery Brown”
Additional Creative Team:
Production Stage Manager - Adele Nadine Traub*; Scenic Designer - Jon Savage**; Costume Designer - Nia Safarr Banks**; Lighting Designer - Isaak Olson; Sound Designer - James Cannon; Props Manager - Isaac West; Dramaturg - Regine Vital; Intimacy Director - Olivia Dumaine; Production Manager/Technical Director - Danielle Ibrahim; Asst. Production Manager - Matt Pierce; Dialect Coach - Rachel Finley; Music Director - R. M. Lawrence ; Wardrobe Manager - Christian Scott Jones; Production Electrician - Molly Beall; Assistant To The Director - Tre Tyler.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States
** Represented by United Scenic Artists, Local USA 829 of the IATSE
Performances:
January 23, 2025 through February 23, 2025
(Contact Box Office for Exact Times)
Hibernian Hall, 184 Dudley Street, # 200, Boston, MA. 02119
TICKETS:
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Phone # 617-241-2200 or visit www.ActorsShakespeareProject.org
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ABOUT THE SHOW
ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT is thrilled to continue and deepen our dedication to August Wilson’s American Century Cycle with one of his most celebrated titles: "THE PIANO LESSON."
This passionate and riveting family drama returns to Pittsburgh’s Hill District in the aftermath of The Great Depression.
Tensions are crackling under the floorboards of Doaker Charles’ household when his fast-talking nephew Boy Willie blows in from Mississippi with a scheme to set their descendants up for generations.
The plan: sell the family’s ornate antique piano carved by an ancestor and use it to buy the land where his family had been enslaved.
But half of the piano also belongs to Berniece, who refuses to let her brother pawn off the heirloom.
As the siblings dig in their heels, they will search deeper into their lineage and uncover shocking revelations that will change them both forever.
Winner of the 1990 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a 1990 Tony Award Nominee for Best Play, August Wilson’s "THE PIANO LESSON" is an explosive and incisive inquiry into the struggle between what we owe to our past and how we build our future.
ABOUT THE ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT
ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT (ASP), founded in 2004, is an award-winning professional theater company with a Resident Acting Company and extensive education, youth, and community programs. ASP performs and works in found spaces, schools, theaters and neighborhoods to present and explore the robust language, resonant stories, and deeply human characters in Shakespeare’s plays and in works by other great playwrights. Work is ensemble-based and focused on intimacy, storytelling, language, relationships, voice, risk and artistry within and throughout the Boston area.
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ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT believes Shakespeare’s words are urgently relevant to our times. Working as an ensemble of resident company members, ASP brings these words into the voices, bodies, and imaginations of actors, audiences, and neighborhoods. ASP does this through creative projects, including intimate productions and outreach programs that are informed by the spaces in which they happen. These projects inspire civic dialogue, build relationships between people, strengthen communities, and reveal something about what it means to be human here and now.
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