TY - SER KW - Great Depression, The KW - sharecroppers KW - Black Americans AU - August Wilson AB - An adaptation of the 1987 stage play, in which a Black family in Depression-era Pittsburgh debates its history and especially what to do with their heirloom piano. C1 - 1936 C2 - unpublished C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Hill District C4 - Literary; Black; Slum; Psychological LA - English M3 - Television Script N1 - The film stars Charles S. Dutton and Alfre Woodard. N2 - An adaptation of the 1987 stage play, in which a Black family in Depression-era Pittsburgh debates its history and especially what to do with their heirloom piano. PY - 1995 RN - August Wilson (1945-2005), born Frederick August Kittel Jr. in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood, won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. He died in Seattle and is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in O’Hara Twp., Allegheny County. TI - The Piano Lesson ER -