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August Wilson’s “Piano Lesson” will replace Martha Clarke’s “The Garden of Earthly Delights” at the San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre May 4-28. “The Piano Lesson,” completing its Chicago run this week, tells of an African-American family in 1936 that must decide whether to keep a family piano, upon which the faces of their slave ancestors are carved, or sell it to buy land their ancestors once worked on. “The Piano Lesson” is the fourth in Wilson’s projected series of plays about the African-American experience (including the Pulitzer Prize- winning “Fences,” “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone”).
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