“Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star” and “Mary had a Little Lamb” are stable songs that all young musicians learn to play during the first weeks of instrument lessons. For students at Helen Steiner Rice and ...

While it’s an incalculable advantage for an actor to have a hugely successful movie-star father, there’s still the difficulty of establishing one’s own identity, especially when, like John David ...

What sustains a family? Generational wealth? Trinkets ancestors have left behind? Stories told over a fire on a snowy evening? These questions get a cathartic rumination in The Piano Lesson, the ...

At heart, August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” is a ghost story. Set in 1930s Pittsburgh (other than a brief prologue in 1911 Mississippi), it’s the story of the Charles family, literally haunted by ...

LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs her husband, starring opposite Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in Wilson’s drama about African Americans wrestling with the painful past. By David Rooney ...

How to both honor history and move beyond it is the overriding theme of “The Piano Lesson,” one of August Wilson’s finest plays. The new Broadway revival, featuring Samuel L. Jackson and directed by ...

If you are a beginner, you can enroll in MUEL 1115, an online, asynchronous class on any semester including summer. If you have had about a year of lessons, you can enroll in MUEL 1125 in the spring ...

You may have tried to learn the piano as a kid, but didn’t like the teacher’s musty living room and boring exercises you had to practice all the time. Fortunately, technology has advanced to make ...

You can also read the star's essay about the film -- hitting Netflix on Friday -- for an accompanying Assouline book. By Rania Aniftos Erykah Badu is returning to a screen near you. The singer has ...