The revival of the August Wilson play is mostly in tune.
Boy Willie is a sharecropper, living in 1936 with his eyes unblinking on the future, who travels up from Mississippi to see his sister Berniece and uncle Doaker in Pittsburgh.
“Mama Ola polished this piano with her tears for 17 years,” she booms at Boy Willie. Brooks is riveting as she groundedly gives the wrenching speech. We last saw the “Orange Is the New Black” actress on Broadway in the musical “The Color Purple,” and she brings that same fiery defiance to Wilson’s play that she did to the song “Hell No!” in 2015.
Doaker, played by Jackson, listens more than he shows off, so the part can be thankless. Jackson gives him a lot of charm — he’s Samuel L. Jackson! — but his most consequential moment — a monologue in which he explains the complicated and harrowing backstory of the piano — fizzles. And that tale is awfully important to the tone of the show.
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