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Viola Davis, Colman Domingo on the Importance of Telling August Wilson's Stories on Screen (Exclusive)

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on Netflix, playwright August Wilson’s celebration of Black lives once again takes center stage. The film, produced by Denzel Washington and starring Viola Davis, Chadwick Boseman and Colman Domingo, chronicles the day in the life of the legendary blues singer and her backing band as they record music one afternoon in the 1920s.

It also marks the second time one of Wilson’s award-winning plays has been adapted for the screen. The first, of course, being, which Washington produced, directed and starred in.

The two-time Oscar winner has also made it his mission to make movie versions of Wilson’s 10 plays, known as the .Also referred to as the, nine of the 10 plays depict different generations of African Americans living in Pittsburgh’s Hill.

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