The production is not only the highest grossing Wilson production ever to grace Broadway, but also the highest-grossing revival of a play on the Great White Way this season. Jackson and Washington come to The Piano Lesson movie after wrapping up their run in a Broadway revival of the play at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, consisting of 27 previews and 124 regular performances. And this film won Oscars for Best Makeup and Hairstyling and Costume Design from a total of five noms. Wolfe helmed 2011’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom from a script by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, with Davis, Chadwick Boseman, Colman Domingo, Glynn Turman, Potts, Taylour Paige, Dusan Brown, Jeremy Shamos and Jonny Coyne starring. The film itself landed Academy Award noms for Best Picture, Actor and Adapted Screenplay, as Davis nabbed her first statuette in the category of Supporting Actress. 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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