The Piano Lesson by August Wilson will run October 22 through November 9, 2014, directed by Timothy Bond, at Syracuse Stage. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!
Haunted and haunting. August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. The past threatens to pull apart brother and sister. Bernice treasures a one-of-a-kind piano, an heirloom with carved figures of their enslaved ancestors. Boy Willie suddenly arrives from the South determined to sell the piano and buy the land his family worked on. When the ghost of the piano's original owner appears, family conflicts escalate to a dramatic confrontation. With lyrical language rolling from the rowdy to the tender, this is one of Wilson's finest.
For more information, visit http://syracusestage.org/showinfo.php?id=53.
Photo Credit: Michael Davis

Piano carving made of Styrofoam and painted to look like wood, created by the Props Department at Syracuse Stage

Derrick Lee Weeden (Doaker), G. Valmont Thomas (Wining Boy), Stephen Tyrone Williams (Boy Willie), and Yaegel T. Welch (Lymon)

Stephen Tyrone Williams (Boy Willie), Ken Robinson (Avery), Marcea Bond (Maretha), Yaegel T. Welch (Lymon), and Erika Lavonn (Bernice)

Erika Lavonn (Bernice) and Ken Robinson (Avery)

G. Valmont Thomas (Wining Boy)

Erika Lavonn (Bernice)
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