Jackson is primarily a screen actor, and his notable roles are almost too many to count. Now, in a full-circle moment, he's playing the wise uncle Doaker Charles in the play's first Broadway revival.

in The Mountaintop in 2011, and he made his Broadway debut in the original production of The Piano Lesson in 1990, when he was an understudy for Boy Willie and Lymon. Read more below to learn more about the cast of The Piano Lesson revival. Jackson as Doaker Charles, Danielle Brooks as Berneice, and John David Washington as Boy Willie, Michael Potts as Wining Boy, April Matthis as Grace, Trai Byers as Avery, and Ray Fisher as Lymon. The cast of The Piano Lesson on Broadway features Samuel L. Who is in the cast of The Piano Lesson on Broadway? Learn more about The Piano Lesson's cast below and the Broadway shows, movies, and TV series you might recognize them from.

With a star-studded cast of stage and screen stars, The Piano Lesson revival - playing through January 15 at the Barrymore Theatre - is sure to earn its own memorable place in Broadway history. Since then, the play has won the Pulitzer Prize, received five Tony Award nominations, and continued to cemente Wilson's status as an iconic American playwright following shows like Fences and Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, all part of Wilson's legendary Century Cycle of plays exploring his Pitsburgh hometown. However, The Piano Lesson has never been revived on Broadway, until now. The show premiered in 1987 at Yale Repertory Theatre and opened on Broadway in 1990.

The Piano Lesson has its own time-honored legacy. Whether they decide to sell or keep it will determine how future generations will remember their family's history. In the play, two adult siblings feud over what to do with a family heirloom: a hand-carved piano passed down from their ancestors. August Wilson's play The Piano Lesson is all about legacy.

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