His sister, Berniece (Danielle Deadwyler), is vehemently against it; she wants to uphold the wishes of their late mother who believed the piano had a spiritual significance as the sole vestige of their family’s history. Speaking to TODAY.com, John David ...

That’s the underlying conceit of August Wilson’s play The Piano Lesson, in which a piano passed down through generations of one Black family wields the power to unite that family, though it also threatens to drive them apart.

Styled by the dynamic duo Wayman Deon and Micah McDonald, Deadwyler turned heads in a breathtaking gown from Schiaparelli.