NEW YORK — Spoiled as we've been with superb revivals of August Wilson plays, it's almost confusing to encounter a high-profile Broadway production that doesn't quite live up to expectations.
"The Piano Lesson," which opened Thursday at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre, seemed on paper to be one of the can't-miss offerings of the fall season.
Samuel L. Jackson leads a top-notch cast in the first Broadway revival of one of the Pulitzer Prize-winning works in Wilson's decade-by-decade 10-play cycle chronicling Black life in 20th-century America. What could possibly go wrong?
