Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson
Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play
It is the spring of 1948. In the still cool evenings of Pittsburgh's Hill district, familiar sounds fill the air. A rooster crows. Screen doors slam. The laughter of friends gathered for a backyard card game rises just above the wail of a mother who has lost her son. And there's the sound of...

After a failed suicide attempt Maggie Sheridan is taken in by Sir Charles Stafford and his son Sebastian.

Valentine Xavier leaves the entertainment world in New Orleans after he has one too many encounters with the law. A rainstorm leaves him stranded in a small town, where his past comes back to haunt him.

Elvis Presley rises to fame in the 1950s while maintaining a complex relationship with his manager, Colonel Tom Parker.

The 1888 presidential race between Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison is enlivened by a Democrat and his Republican group.

When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on The Green Book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the...

The true story of love and redemption, this film is about what happened to singer/songwriter Donnie Emerson and his family when the album he and his brother recorded as teens was rediscovered after thirty years of obscurity and was suddenly hailed by music critics as a lost masterpiece. While the album's rediscovery brings hopes of second chances, it also brings long-buried emotions as Donnie, his wife Nancy, brother Joe, and father Don Sr. come to...

Andrei Filipov was the greatest conductor of the famous Bolshoi Orchestra. He was fired as a conductor for not abandoning his Jewish musicians. Thirty years later, he still works at the Bolshoi; but as a janitor. One day he happens upon an invitation for the orchestra to play in Paris. He has a crazy idea. Rather than letting the director of the orchestra know about this, he will get his old musician friends together and they will go perform...

A Chicago mobster, Big Frank, hires rock-and-roll singer Rusty Wells and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Songs include "Do the clam," "Good news," "Puppet on a string," "Startin' tonight" and "Girl happy."