Broadway’s ‘The Piano Lesson’ Adds Trai Byers, Ray Fisher, April Matthis & Michael Potts To Cast
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Trai Byers, Ray Fisher, April Matthis and Michael Potts have joined Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in the cast of Broadway’s upcoming revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.The production, to be directed by LaTanya Richardson Jackson, will begin performances on Monday, Sept.
19, for a 16-week engagement at the St. James Theatre. The staging will mark the first Broadway revival of the Pulitzer-winning Piano Lesson in more than 30 years.Byers starred on Fox’s Empire as Andre Lyon.
In 2014, he portrayed James Foreman in the Ava DuVernay-directed Selma, and most recently starred in, co-wrote and produced feature film The 24th.
The Piano Lesson will mark his Broadway debut.Fisher, cast as Lymon, is best known for his breakout role as Victor Stone/Cyborg in Warner Brothers’ DC Cinematic Universe.
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