Berniece's boyfriend Avery ( Tommy Hollis) and her Uncle Wining Boy ( Lou Myers) also attempt for reasons of their own to get Berniece to sell. When Boy Willie arrives, his Uncle Doaker ( Carl Gordon) tells Willie that Berniece won't part with the piano. and decades earlier, Berniece and Boy Willie's grandfather had, at the slave master's instructions, carved the black family's African tribal history and American slave history into the piano's surface. The piano itself had at one time belonged to the wife of the original Sutter, the white former owner of their family. Sutter ( Tim Hartman), a descendant of the family that once owned Willie's own ancestors as slaves. Vance) travel from Mississippi to Pittsburgh, where he wishes his sister Berniece ( Alfre Woodard) will give him the family's heirloom piano so that he can sell it to buy land from Mr.

Dutton) and his friend Lymon ( Courtney B. Filming is expected to begin Summer 2021 in Pittsburgh. On September 30, 2020, it was announced that Denzel Washington is planning a new film adaptation for Netflix. Dutton and Alfre Woodard, and relies on most of its cast from the original Broadway production. Directed by Lloyd Richards, the film stars Charles S. Produced by Hallmark Hall of Fame, the film originally aired on CBS on February 5, 1995. The Piano Lesson is a 1995 American television film based on the play The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. 1995 American TV series or program The Piano Lesson