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Magic Johnson managed to avoid the curse of uncomfortable Broadway theater seats at last week's opening night performance of August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson.The 63-year-old Lakers legend had the seat in front of him at the play removed when he attended on Thursday with his wife Cookie Johnson, 63, and son EJ Johnson, 30, sources told Page Six on Monday.According to the sources, Magic didn't request the accommodation, but 'thoughtful' producers who knew he was likely to attend had the set disassembled in advance. Leg room: Magic Johnson, 63, got a surprise treat when producers removed the seat in front of the 6ft9in former athlete at Thursday's opening night of The Piano Lesson on Broadway, sources told Page Six; seen with wife Cookie and son EJThe producers were also cognizant of the fact that Johnson was jetting into New York City between playoff games featuring the LA Dodgers — of whom he is a part owner — and the San Diego Padres.A source said the producers went the extra mile '[Since he was] a special guest and all, and since he made the day trip between Dodgers playoff games.' The current production of The Piano Lesson stars Samuel L.

EXCLUSIVE: Danielle Deadwyler achieved  “artistic love” working with director Malcom Washington and his sibling John David Washington on the screen adaptation of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Piano Lesson.

Continuing Denzel Washington‘s stated quest to bring new film versions of iconic playwright August Wilson‘s 10-play Century Cycle (aka Pittsburgh Cycle since nearly all take place in the writer’s hometown), he has now come in as producer (with Todd Black) of one of Wilson’s most celebrated works, the 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning The Piano Lesson, previously made as a TV movie in 1995 and in 2022 the subject of a major Broadway revival. Finding success with his 2016 film version of Fences following its Tony-winning Broadway revival and bringing an Oscar to Viola Davis as well as Denzel’s 10th nomination, and then 2020’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, this seems like a natural move as well as a work that perhaps lends itself better than others in Wilson’s canon to a cinematic adaptation.

Zendaya is enjoying the theater scene in London while her boyfriend Tom Holland performs in a West End play!

After a deal couldn’t be made for David Leitch to direct, Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment have moved fast as the studio is in final negotiations for Rogue One director Gareth Edwards to helm a new Jurassic World movie. The studio recently dated the pic to bow on July 2, 2025 and moved fast to find a director with Edwards spending all of last week meeting with execs. After impressing producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall, who helped launch the franchise in the 90s, an offer soon followed and pre-production is expected to ramp up once a deal is sealed.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic The creator of “The Creator,” Gareth Edwards, started his filmmaking career teaching himself VFX at home. He’s an innovator on that front, devising ways to generate creepy CG monsters for “Monsters” more than a dozen years ago, then overseeing deceptively massive blockbusters, like “Godzilla,” ever since (deceptive because much of that stunning scale comes from virtual detail added in post).

Danielle Brooks celebrated the opening night of her Broadway show The Piano Lesson just days ago and she sadly has to take a break from performing as she just tested positive for COVID-19.

There’s abundant magic still in The Piano Lesson, August Wilson’s grand, 1987 Pulitzer Prize winning tale of a Black family torn between legacy and ambition, the past and the future, and, it’s not an overstatement to note, between life and death.

Brent Lang Executive Editor Samuel L. Jackson had his marching orders. So when actor John David Washington approached him for tips about playing Boy Willie, a role Jackson originated in the 1987 production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson,” he clammed up. “I was specifically told by the director not to give him advice,” Jackson says. “John David asked several times, but when he realized that I was not allowed to help him, he stopped asking.” The director, in this case, is LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who also happens to be Jackson’s wife, as well as the first woman to oversee a production of Wilson’s work on Broadway. The two are teaming up on the hotly anticipated revival of the classic drama, only this time Sam is playing Boy Willie’s uncle, Doaker Charles. It marks his first time on Broadway since 2011’s “The Mountaintop,” in which he played Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and LaTanya’s  first time directing after a run of acclaimed stage performances, including the 2014 revival of “A Raisin in the Sun” and 2018’s “To Kill a Mockingbird.”

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Samuel L. Jackson and Uma Thurman have had a Pulp Fiction reunion backstage on Broadway.The actors, who played Jules Winnfield and Mia Wallace respectively in Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 film alongside John Travolta, met up last Saturday (October 1) at the Broadway revival of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson.The play is currently being performed in previews at the Barrymore Theatre in New York.

return to Broadway for the first time in over a decade this fall, starring alongside Danielle Brooks and John David Washington in a revival of August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Piano Lesson. The show also marks the Broadway debut of director LaTanya Richardson Jackson, who will not only have the rare opportunity to direct her husband’s big return in the first revival of the show in three decades but will break ground as the first woman to ever direct an August Wilson play on Broadway.The show is a particularly special return for Jackson, who starred in the play’s 1987 debut as Boy Willie at age 39.

Samuel L. Jackson and his wife, LaTanya Richardson Jackson, have an exciting project in the works! ET spoke with the powerhouse couple on the 75th annual Tony Awards red carpet, and the two shared details about their upcoming Broadway revival of August Wilson's .LaTanya is putting on her directing cap for the revival, which she told ET will be «an exciting time and a good time had by all.»She also gushed about the production's star-studded cast, including John David Washington, Danielle Brooks, Michael Potts, Ray Fisher and, of course, Samuel himself. «All very difficult people,» Samuel joked.

Danielle Brooks, John David Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson – the recent recipient of an honorary Oscar at the 2022 Governor’s Awards – have been cast to star in the upcoming revival of The Piano Lesson.The fourth play in August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, The Piano Lesson follows a brother and sister pitted against one another in Pittsburgh’s Hill District during 1936 over the fate of a family heirloom — a piano carved with the faces of their ancestors.

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John David Washington 'always' wanted to be an actor like his father Denzel Washington.The Malcom & Marie star, 36, opened up about his career path in an interview for WSJ Magazine, admitting his pro-football persona was just a facade.'I always wanted to do what he did, always wanted to be an artist,' Washington explained. Idol:John David Washington 'always' wanted to be an actor like his father Denzel WashingtonBut the Tenet actor was reluctant, fearing what it would be live to live in the shadow of his father's legend.His solution was football, something which he excelled in at Morehouse College.

Variety, actor John David Washington spoke about the criticism regarding his age difference with his 24-year old Malcolm & Marie co-star Zendaya. During the conversation, the 36-year old actor said very plainly the 12-year age difference didn’t matter to him, “I wasn’t concerned about it because she is a woman. People are going to see in this film how much of a woman she is,” he added.

John David Washington is sharing his thoughts on a possible sequel to Tenet and is on board for a second film. The 36-year-old actor stars as The Protagonist in the film from Christopher Nolan, opposite Robert Pattinson, and spoke with Esquire about the chance of a second movie.

Tenet actor John David Washington is remembering the late Chadwick Boseman. In a new interview, the 36-year-old Malcolm & Marie actor talked about getting to know the late Black Panther actor after a “brief encounter” at a Vanity Fair photo shoot.

Denzel Washington has been keeping his actor son John David Washington busy with household chores during lockdown.The 36-year-old Tenet star appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! with guest host Samuel L. Jackson, where he talked about living with his dad once again amid the COVID-19 crisis.“You really live in Brooklyn, but since the pandemic has happened you had to come back home.