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Music to Critics’ Ears: “The Piano Lesson,” August Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, opened Monday at Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theater to rave reviews. “This is Wilson’s most accomplished work to date, resonating with a poetry that enhances a strong story and illuminates a half dozen or so expertly drawn characters,” wrote AP drama critic Michael Kuchwara. Frank Rich of The New York Times wrote: “ ‘The Piano Lesson’ is joyously an African-American play: It has its own spacious poetry, its own sharp angle on a nation’s history and its own palpable ghosts.” And from the New York Post’s Clive Barnes: “This is a wonderful play that lights up man. See it, wonder at it, and recognize it.”