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Extra, extra! Lincoln Center Theater has named the full cast for the spring 2025 Broadway premiere of [*Floyd Collins*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41242-floyd-collins-on-broadway), including [Jeremy Jordan](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/jeremy-jordan), Lizzy McAlpine, and more. Performances begin on March 27 ahead of an April 21 opening at the [Vivian Beaumont Theater](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/vivian-beaumont-theater).

Jordan is a Tony and...

Jeremy Jordan, Lizzy McAlpine to star in ‘Floyd Collins’ on Broadway

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The two-time Tony Award nominee and the singer-songwriter will lead Adam Guettel and Tina Landau’s musical, presented by Lincoln Center Theater in March 2025.

The year is drawing to a close, but plenty of New York shows are opening in December before 2024 is up. The last shows of the fall season make their debuts just in time for the holiday season, when tons of visitors flood New York to see the decorations and, of course, see not only new shows, but fan favorites from the last year.

And with the holidays in full swing, December is filled with Broadway and Off-Broadway shows that celebrate the magic of the winter season. <a...

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Discover our top picks for Broadway shows and Off-Broadway shows to see this month, including new shows premiering and last-chance shows closing this month.

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Read our picks for must-see Broadway and Off-Broadway theatre in December 2024, including the year's final fall Broadway productions and holiday-themed shows.

[*Redwood*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/41270-redwood-on-broadway) on Broadway has named the complete cast joining [previously announced](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatre-news/news/idina-menzel-to-star-in-redwood-on-broadway) star [Idina Menzel](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/stars-on-stage/idina-menzel). Performances begin at the [Nederlander Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/nederlander-theatre) January 24 ahead of a February 13...

'Redwood,' starring Idina Menzel, completes Broadway cast

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The new musical, which premiered at California's La Jolla Playhouse earlier this year, will come to New York in January with multiple actors returning.

[*A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/39810-a-wonderful-world-the-louis-armstrong-musical-studio-54) traces the legendary life and career of the famous jazz vocalist and trumpeter through the eyes of his four wives across as many cities: New Orleans, Chicago, Hollywood, and New York.

Now at [Studio 54](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/studio-54), the jukebox musical stars...

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The show about the music legend's life features a score of jazz standards, blues and pop songs, and even showtunes Armstrong popularized throughout his career.

Hey, old sport! Ryan McCartan will join the cast of [*The Great Gatsby*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/38749-the-great-gatsby-on-broadway) on Broadway this winter, playing his first performance at the [Broadway Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/broadway-theatre) on January 21.

McCartan is known for his New York stage roles as J.D. in *Heathers*, Fiyero in *Wicked*, and Hans in *Frozen*. On screen, his roles include Brad in *The Rocky Horror Picture Show* and...

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The stage and screen actor will replace original cast member Jeremy Jordan in the title role of the musical adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel.

[*BOOP! The Musical*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/39187-boop-the-betty-boop-musical) on Broadway has named its principal cast, all of whom return to the show from its world premiere in Chicago last year. Broadway performances begin at the [Broadhurst Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/venues/broadhurst-theatre) on March 11 ahead of an April 5 opening.

The *BOOP!* Broadway cast includes [Jasmine Amy...

'BOOP! The Musical' names main Broadway cast

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The original musical, based on the famous cartoon character Betty Boop, will bring back the principal actors from its world-premiere run in Chicago last year.

[*Tammy Faye*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/37219-tammy-faye) has set its closing date on Broadway, playing its final performance on December 8. At the time of closing, it will have played 53 total performances at the [Palace Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/palace-theatre-ny).

*Tammy Faye* is a new musical about the tumultuous life and career of 20th-century televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. The show charts how she and her husband Jim Bakker founded the TV show...

‘Tammy Faye’ to close on Broadway

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The musical about televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker features a book by James Graham, music by Elton John, and lyrics by Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters.

The acclaimed Broadway revival of [*The Piano Lesson*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/24256-the-piano-lesson-tickets) will offer rush and lottery tickets for the remainder of its run. August Wilson's play is in performances through January 22 at the [Barrymore Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/barrymore-theatre).

Rush tickets will be available in person at the box office beginning at 10 a.m. each performance day. Each person can purchase up to two tickets, at $35 each, for that day's performance, and rush tickets are subject to availability.

*The Piano Lesson* also offers a digital lottery for $57 tickets. The lottery is open from midnight to 3 p.m. the day before each performance. Winners are drawn at 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. for tickets to the following day's performance. Each person can request up to two tickets.

Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks, and John David Washington lead the first revival of the Pulitzer-winning play about honoring one's family history. In *The Piano Lesson*, siblings Berniece (Brooks) and Boy Willie (Washington) debate whether to sell or keep a family heirloom (the title piano), with their uncle Doaker (Jackson) caught in the middle.

[Get *The Piano Lesson* tickets now.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/24256-the-piano-lesson-tickets)

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August Wilson’s *The Piano Lesson* is being revived on Broadway with a star-studded cast in 2022. Samuel L. Jackson, John David Washington, and Danielle Brooks lead the cast of *The Piano Lesson*, playing at the Barrymore Theatre for 17 weeks only. Get *The Piano Lesson* tickets on New York Theatre Guide now.

*The Piano Lesson* is a play about family history and heritage, and how best to honor that heritage. It's 1936, and the two adult siblings of the Charles family cannot agree on what to do with a family heirloom: a piano that is hand-carved with the faces of their enslaved ancestors. Berneice (Brooks) insists on keeping the piano as a reminder of her ancestors and their hardships. But Willie (Washington), a sharecropper, wants to sell the piano and use the money to buy the land where their ancestors worked as slaves, believing the best way to honor them is to take back the land that their ancestors couldn't own in their own lifetime.

The already difficult decision gets further complicated when it appears that familial ghosts appear to haunt the Charles household. The siblings' living uncle, Doaker (Jackson), is on hand throughout the play as the storyteller. As an older family member, he possesses the most knowledge of the piano's — and the family's — storied history, which his niece and nephew are not always quick to share.

LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs the 2022 production, which is the play's first Broadway revival. The premiere production of *The Piano Lesson* on Broadway was in 1987 at Yale Repertory Theatre, with a younger Jackson playing Boy Willie alongside Carl Gordon as Doaker and Starletta DuPois as Berneice. After playing a second engagement at Huntington Theatre Company in Boston (with Charles S. Dutton in place of Jackson), that production moved to Broadway's Walter Kerr Theatre in 1990 and played there for nine months.

Though the show lost out on the Best Play Tony Award, it did win the 1990 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Play and New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Play. *The Piano Lesson* also won the Peabody Award and earned Wilson his second Pulitzer Prize for Drama, after *Fences* in 1987.

## Who is August Wilson?

August Wilson was a playwright who lived from 1945 to 2005. Shortly after his death, he got a [Broadway theatre named for him](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/august-wilson-theatre) and was the first Black person to do so. He is best known for the Pittsburgh Cycle, a collection of 10 plays about Black American life that each take place in a different decade of the 20th century.

All the plays in the cycle feature strong female characters (inspired by the values of Wilson's own mother) and are written in Black vernacular, and many include supernatural elements. *The Piano Lesson* is one of these plays.

## How long is the *Piano Lesson* play?

*The Piano Lesson* runs 2 hours and 45 minutes, including an intermission.

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Starring Academy Award winner Samuel L. Jackson, Emmy and Tony nominee Danielle Brooks, and Golden Globe nominee John David Washington, *The Piano Lesson* is a Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork by August Wilson. The Charles family argues over whether to sell their heirloom piano to invest in their future or keep the piano to preserve their past. See a moving story about the meaning of family legacy by getting tickets to *The Piano Lesson*.

August Wilson wrote *The Piano Lesson* as the fourth play in his Pittsburgh Cycle. The Cycle is a collection of 10 plays, each set during a different decade of the 20th century, exploring Black life in the titular Pennsylvania city.

*The Piano Lesson* premiered in 1987 at Yale Repertory Theatre in Connecticut, followed by productions at Boston's Huntington Theatre Company and Chicago's Goodman Theatre. The cast from the Chicago production stayed on for the premiere of *The Piano Lesson* on Broadway in 1990. That year, the show received five Tony nominations, including Best Play, and won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

The play was revived off Broadway in 2012, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson and starring Chuck Cooper and Brandon J. Dirden. That production won four Lucille Lortel Awards and two Obie Awards.

Ten years later, a celebrity cast heads up the first *Piano Lesson* Broadway revival. Samuel L. Jackson, now making his third Broadway appearance, is best known for his onscreen roles in *Pulp Fiction*, *Do the Right Thing*, *Django Unchained*, *The Hateful Eight*, the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, and many more. His career earned him the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievement.

Danielle Brooks is a Tony nominee for *The Color Purple* musical and star of Netflix's *Orange Is the New Black* as Taystee, and The Piano Lesson marks her return to Broadway. John David Washington is a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominee for his role in Spike Lee's *BlacKkKlansmen* and makes his Broadway debut in the production.

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## What to Watch For

- Samuel L. Jackson made his Broadway debut as an understudy for Boy Willie and Lymon in the original Broadway production of *The Piano Lesson*.
- A love of Wilson's work runs in the family! John David Washington is the son of multi-award-winning actor Denzel Washington, who won the Tony Award for starring in Wilson's *Fences* and also directed, produced, and starred in the four-time Oscar-nominated film adaptation. Denzel Washington also produced the 2020 film adaptation of Wilson's *Ma Rainey's Black Bottom*.
- There's another family affair related to this *Piano Lesson* revival, too. Director LaTanya Richardson Jackson, a Tony-nominated actor, is Samuel L. Jackson's wife of more than 40 years.
- With this revival, LaTanya Richardson Jackson makes her Broadway directorial debut and becomes the first woman to direct an August Wilson play on Broadway.
- *The Piano Lesson* is playing Broadway's Barrymore Theatre. A different Broadway theatre bears August Wilson's name, but none of his plays have appeared there since the venue was named for him in 2005 (one of his plays, *King Hedley II*, played there in 2001). Maybe his next revival will!

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[*The Piano Lesson*](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/24256-the-piano-lesson-tickets) at the [Barrymore Theatre](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/theatres/barrymore-theatre) has been tuned to perfection. Under the deft guidance of LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who makes her Broadway directing debut, August Wilson’s stirring story filled with richly drawn characters, family drama, humor, and beyond-this-world mystery (cue the ghost!) comes vividly to life.

Bluesy poetry and musicality are hallmarks of Wilson’s scripts. It’s easy to see – and hear – that here. Over the course of 2 3/4 hours, bits of boogie-woogie, spirituals, and chants toll. Some lines are said so often they ring like refrains. History also looms large in Wilson's works, and that’s true of this 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning chapter in his decade-by-decade deep dive into Black lives in the 20th century. 

The setting is 1936 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, where self-sufficient single mom Berniece Charles (Danielle Brooks) and her young daughter Maretha (Jurnee Swan) live with her uncle Doaker (Samuel L. Jackson). It’s a modest home – well-kept, nothing fancy. Except for one furnishing: an extravagantly carved upright piano that stands in full view in the living room. It has 88 keys and holds painful history.

The ornate instrument becomes the source of conflict when Berniece’s impetuous brother Boy Willie (John David Washington) arrives from Mississippi with his pal Lymon (Ray Fisher) and a truckload of watermelons. Boy Willie plans to sell the fruit and the piano in order to buy a stretch of land of his own.

But anyone who knows Berniece is aware that she won’t part with the piano – no way, no how. “You can’t sell your soul for money,” she tells her brother. He already knows where she stands, like everybody else, including Wining Boy (Michael Potts), Doaker’s brother; and Avery, (Trai Byers), the preacher Berniece has dated since her husband died. The piano is carved with images of enslaved ancestors and is a reminder of what the siblings’ father endured to get it. 

Besides the piano, the past bleeds into the present in another way. The ghost of Sutter, a white man whose ancestors enslaved the Charleses, haunts the house. Berniece asks Avery to bless the residence to get rid of the spirit, but finally comes to realize that tapping into with her family’s past, not shunning it, is what it takes for an exorcism.

The cast is uniformly wonderful. The three leads blend and harmonize, while adding individual grace notes. Brooks speaks volumes with just a glance, Washington adds spirited bluster, and Jackson’s distinct voice was made for Wilson’s words. I lost count of how many times Doaker deadpans, “Berniece ain’t gonna sell that piano” – but he made it fresh each time. (Jackson understudied Boy Willie in the 1990 Broadway run.)

In their supporting roles, Fisher makes dim Lymon lovable, while Potts radiates gleeful charisma. Watching Wining Boy sell Lymon an absurdly ill-fitting suit is like taking a whiff of theatrical laughing gas. As Grace, a wise-to-the-world woman Boy Willie and Lymon try to romance, April Matthis gives a lesson in how to make a big impact with a small role.

The production team also delivers. Beowulf Boritt’s set leaves room for an eerie showdown enhanced by Jeff Sugg’s projections, Toni-Leslie James’s costumes evoke mid-1930s style, and Japhy Weideman's lighting lends warmth and chill as needed. 

Wilson’s works sometimes take on mystical dimensions. *The Piano Lesson* eventually leads to a supernatural confrontation that creeps close to being fright-night over-the-top. Considering what’s at stake, though, the final moments strike just the right chord.

[*The Piano Lesson* is at the Barrymore Theatre until January 22. Get *The Piano Lesson* tickets on New York Theatre Guide.](https://www.newyorktheatreguide.com/show/24256-the-piano-lesson-tickets)

*Photo credit: Samuel L. Jackson and Ray Fisher in The Piano Lesson. (Photo by Julieta Cervantes)*

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The Barrymore Theatre is a historic Broadway venue located in the heart of New York City. Opening its doors in 1928, this prestigious theatre was named after the famed Barrymore theatrical family. Its luxurious interior boasts a classic 20th-century design with grand staircases, ornate details and golden accents, transporting visitors back in time. It is capable of seating up to 1,028 guests, offering both orchestra and mezzanine seating. Notably, this Broadway venue has been the stage for many successful plays, such as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'August: Osage County' and the critically acclaimed 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time'.

**How to get to the venue:**
The Barrymore Theatre can be conveniently reached by various modes of transport. If commuting by subway, take either the C, E or 1 train to 50th Street. Alternatively, take the N, Q or R train to 49th Street. Those preferring to travel by bus can take the M104, M7, M20, or M50 bus lines. The Theatre is also easily accessible by taxi and for those driving, there are numerous nearby parking garages available.

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The Ethel Barrymore Theatre was built in 1928 and designed by Herbert J. Krapp. It is the only surviving theatre that Lee and J.J. Shubert built for the purpose of staging productions starring an individual artist affiliated with them.

Ethel Barrymore achieved stardom under the management of producer Charles Frohman. The Shuberts offered to build her a theatre and commission a play for her to premiere in her namesake house. The play, *The Kingdom of God*  opened on December 20, 1928. Other plays she performed there include *The Love Duel*, *Scarlet Sister Mary*, *The School for Scandal*, and *An International Incident*.

## How to get to the Barrymore Theatre on Broadway

Audiences can take the C, E, or 1 subway line to 50th St. and walk three blocks to the theatre on 47th St. and Broadway. By bus, the Barrymore Theatre is closest to the 8th Ave/W 46th St. on the M20 line.

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The Barrymore Theatre is a historic Broadway venue in New York City, known for its classic design and acclaimed performances.

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