Essays on Theater and the Arts

August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson”

The New Yorker, April 30, 1990

All Wilson’s plays are divided in two—between earth, represented by women and home, and mysticism, embodied in the men who travel around in a world no part of which, they feel, can ever really be theirs. Continue reading

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§2185 · April 30, 1990 · Broadway Theater, The New Yorker Archive · Comments Off on Traveling Man and Hesitating Woman · Tags: ,