Famed African American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005) is best known for his 'Pittsburgh Cycle.' These are ten plays that deal with African American characters over a ten year period in Wilson's native Pittsburgh.
"The Piano Lesson" is a Pulitzer-winning play that chronicles this period in the 1930s.
It will be staged at the Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk from now until Feb.3.
The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., will have stage readings of all ten plays in the Pittsburgh Cycle, starting in March.
The next play that the company will produce is "The Poetry of Pizza," by Debroah Brevoort, about an American professor who falls for a Kurdish pizza-maker while she is in Copenhagen, Denmark.
A famous quote from "The Piano Lesson" is:
"Money can't buy what the piano costs. You can't sell your soul for money. It won't go to the buyer. It'll shivel and shrink to know you aint taken on to it, but it won'g to the buyer."
The play was made into a tv-movie with Alfre Woodward and Louis Gossett Jr.
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