


Danielle Brooks is Berniece in “The Piano Lesson” on Broadway. But the only way he can afford the plot is by selling the cherished piano.

He’s not in PA on vacay, though - he’s got news: Sutter, the man who owns the Mississippi land Boy Willie’s family once worked on as slaves, is dead, and Boy Willie has the chance to buy it. 47th St.Įspecially for Washington, who has been terrific in subdued roles in films such as “ BlacKkKlansman” and “ Tenet,” a gregarious ball of live-in-person energy like Wilson’s Boy Willie is just the ticket.īoy Willie is a sharecropper, living in 1936 with his eyes unblinking on the future, who travels up from Mississippi to see his sister Berniece (Brooks) and uncle Doaker (Samuel L. 2 hours and 45 minutes, with one intermission.
