CPCC Ends Run of THE PIANO LESSON, 4/18

Director Corlis Hayes will close the CPCC Theatre production of August Wilson's The Piano Lesson on April 18th.

August Wilson won his second Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Desk Award for "Outstanding New Play" and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for "Best Play" for his haunting drama The Piano Lesson. It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family's rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated. The Drama critic of The New York Times wrote "Like other Wilson plays, it (The Piano Lesson) seems to sing even when it is talking." Don't miss this classic American drama from one America's most exciting dramat