“I’m dealing with this as a ghost story - I’m unashamedly, unabashedly telling a ghost story,” Richardson Jackson said. In her view, Richardson Jackson said in an interview, the play is “about the struggle of African Americans in this country to actually face what it is that we’re against.” She noted that her own ancestors had been enslaved, and reluctant to talk about it, and she said that she sees the tension within the Charles family as a vehicle for exploring “us facing all of it.” She is best known as an actress - in 2018, she originated the role of Calpurnia in “ To Kill a Mockingbird,” and in 2014, she was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance as Lena Younger in a revival of “ A Raisin in the Sun.” This will be her first time directing on Broadway, but she has directed elsewhere, including a production of Wilson’s “ Two Trains Running” at True Colors Theater in Atlanta. Richardson Jackson will be the first woman to direct a Wilson play on Broadway. Jackson will play their uncle, Doaker Charles (at Yale, he played the brother). The Broadway revival - the first since “The Piano Lesson” arrived there in 1990 - will star Danielle Brooks and John David Washington as a sister and brother at odds over whether to sell a piano on which are carved the faces of their enslaved ancestors. This fall, Richardson Jackson will direct a revival of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, again with her husband in the cast, although in a different role.
LaTanya Richardson Jackson first saw August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” in 1987 - it was the original production, at Yale Repertory Theater, and of course she was going to see it, because her husband, Samuel L.
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