Bottom Book Club | The Piano Lesson
Thu, Apr 30
|Ebony & Ivory Brewing
Our next book club features the modern classic play, The Piano Lesson by August Wilson!
Time & Location
Apr 30, 2026, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Ebony & Ivory Brewing, 2300 N Central St #101, Knoxville, TN 37917, USA
About the Event
Join us for our next book club, where we'll dive into The Piano Lesson by August Wilson. The Bottom Book Club will gather on April 30th from 6-8pm at Ebony & Ivory Brewing. You can purchase the book in-store, on this event page, or online through Bookshop.org.
About The Piano Lesson
August Wilson has already given the American theater such spell-binding plays about the black experience in 20th-century America as Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Fences. In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned perhaps his most haunting and dramatic work.
At the heart of the play stands the ornately carved upright piano which, as the Charles family's prized, hard-won possession, has been gathering dust in the parlor of Berniece Charles's Pittsburgh home. When Boy Willie, Berniece's exuberant brother, bursts into her life with his dream of buying the…
Tickets
Pay What You Can
This ticket is your RSVP. The event is free, but we are always accepting donations.
$+Ticket service fee
RSVP & Book
This ticket includes an RSVP and a copy of the book. Books can be picked up from The Bottom upon purchase of the ticket.
$15.00
+$0.38 ticket service fee
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