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November 27, 1987

PULITZER WINNER AUGUST WILSON'S latest play, ``The Piano Lesson,'' premi`eres tonight at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven, Conn. After a run there through Dec. 19, it moves to the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston. U2'S `JOSHUA TREE' album is listed for the first time this week on Billboard's inspirational records chart at No. 36. For 34 weeks now the album has been among the top 10 on the magazine's pop chart. The inspirational chart is based on sales at Christian record and book stores. POETRY COMES TO PUBLIC TV Sunday in the form of a new series of between-program readings by Robert Bly, Allen Ginsberg, Galway Kinnell, and others. Seamus Heaney opens the series of ``Poetry Breaks'' at 9:57 p.m., just after ``Masterpiece Theatre.'' On Jan. 26, PBS also plans to launch a one-hour series about American poets, ``Voices and Visions.''