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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,” which is completing a run in Chicago this week, tells of an African-American family in 1936 that must decide whether to keep a family piano--in 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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