CPCC Theatre Presents THE PIANO LESSON by August Wilson, 4/9-4/18

To kick off the newly rebranded CPCC ArtFEST - Sensoria, CPCC Theatre will present August Wilson's The Piano Lesson on April 9,10,16,17 at 8:00pm and April 11 & 18 at 2:30pm in the newly refurbished Pease Auditorium on the Central Campus of CPCC. Tickets are $16.00 and can be purchased online at CarolinaTix 24/7 or by calling the CPCC Box Office at 704-330-6534 Monday - Friday from 10:00am to 5:00pm.

August Wilson won his second Pulitzer Prize, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Play and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play for this haunting drama The Piano Lesson. It is 1936 and Boy Willie arrives in Pittsburgh from the South in a battered truck loaded with watermelons to sell. He has an opportunity to buy some land down home, but he has to come up with the money right quick. He wants to sell an old piano that has been in his family for generations, but he shares ownership with his sister and it sits in her living room. She has already rejected several offers because the antique piano is covered with incredible carvings detailing the family's rise from slavery. Boy Willie tries to persuade his stubborn sister that the past is past, but she is more formidable than he anticipated. The Drama critic of The New York Times wrote "Like other Wilson plays, it (The Piano Lesson) seems to sing even when it is talking."- ". Don't miss this classic American drama from one America's most exciting dramatists.

Starring local favorites Karen Abercrombie as Berneice, Jonavan Adams as Boy Willie, Gerard Hazelton as Wining Boy, Sidney Horton as Avery, Robert N. Isaac as Lymon, John W. Price as Doaker, Ericka Ross as Grace, Kelsey Holland Wardlaw as Maretha ( April 9,10,16,18) and Mahari Conston as Maretha ( April 11 and 17). Directed by Corlis Hayes.

For more information visit our website at www.arts.cpcc.edu or the Sensoria website at www.sensorial.cpcc.edu.