The Piano Lesson - Off-Broadway

Reviews

• Review by Michael Feingold
  from The Village Voice
  November 21, 2012

  ‘‘[Brandon J.] Dirden, blunt, brusque, fast-talking, makes Boy Willie's verbal effusions a scrambling nonstop ride, perfectly balanced by [Roslyn] Ruff's steely, slow-burning determination.’’

• Review by Linda Winer
  from Newsday
  November 20, 2012

  ‘‘The first-rate production has been directed with meticulous care and a fantastically musical ear by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.’’

• Review by Frank Scheck
  from The New York Post
  November 18, 2012

  ‘‘22 years after its Broadway debut, this deeply moving work about the lingering scars of slavery on a 1930s Pittsburgh family is getting a sterling revival.’’

• Review by Melissa Rose Bernardo
  from Entertainment Weekly
  November 18, 2012

  ‘‘And perhaps best of all is Tony winner Chuck Cooper ('The Life') as Doaker's 'big recording star' brother Wining Boy. His bluesy drunken ode to his recently departed wife, Cleotha, is heartbreaking.’’

• Review by Charles Isherwood
  from The New York Times
  November 18, 2012

  ‘‘This immensely satisfying show, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, an actor who has become an expert interpreter of Wilson’s work, brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theater can be.’’