My earliest memories of my father, composer Paul Sheftel, are at the piano. After each lesson, I would draw a small picture ...

According to new research, elderly people who learned the piano saw no change in the density of their brain's white matter. White matter, which can be found in the fornix of the brain, can protect ...

The entirety of the action in August Wilson’s THE PIANO LESSON unfolds in a single place - a house in Pittsburgh's Hill District, in the mid-1930s. That domicile, home to Doaker Charles, his niece, ...

The 101-year-old says her family never had the money for things like music lessons when she was growing up in Prince Rupert, ...

Chosts abound in The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. Credit: Photo by Eisani Apedemak-Saba/ Courtesy of The Ensemble Theatre When you unleash The Ensemble Theatre on an August Wilson play, you should ...

Though all of the four plays August Wilson has written deal with different decades of the American black experience in this century, each one has had at its center the terrible consequences of racial ...

From left: “ranney," Omar Robison, 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 ...

It's the third movie to be adapted from August Wilson's 10-play series. If good intentions were all, this screen version of "The Piano Lesson" would earn high marks. But wishing doesn't make it so.