Washington directed and starred opposite Viola Davis in 2016’s Fences, after teaming with the actress on a 2010 Broadway revival of the same title, which brought them both Tonys. The Piano Lesson is notably part of Wilson’s famed 10-play “American Century Cycle,” also including Fences and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom - titles that Oscar winner Washington and Oscar nom Black have shepherded to the screen for Paramount and Netflix, respectively.
Virgil Williams ( Mudbound) and Washington adapted the screenplay for the film, to be exec produced by Constanza Romero, Jennifer Roth and Katia Washington, which will mark the latest in a series of stage-to-screen adaptations of Wilson’s plays from producers Denzel Washington and Todd Black.
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