The Piano Lesson – Episode 13 – Reading Plays

Reading Plays by Gareth Stack

Dec 9, 2014Arts

A family history entwined with the legacy of slavery. Black urban poverty in 1930’s Pittsburg. Criminality and working class aspirations. Intersectionality and the patriarchy of the poor. August Wilson’s Pian...

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