I love my job. I get to go to the theatre as time permits and watch great actors tell the tales written by some of the best storytellers in the universe, living or dead. Gotta admit that’s pretty cool ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Blues legend Gertrude “Ma” Rainey electrified Jacksonville’s LaVilla district in the early 1900s, building her reputation as the “Mother of the Blues” while breaking barriers as ...

Rule number one: Ma Rainey’s not singing until she gets a cold Coca-Cola. George C. Wolf’s reimagining of August Wilson’s Pulitzer prize-winning 1982 play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, is a story of the ...

CAPTURING AUDIENCES. THESE SNAPSHOTS TAKE YOU BACK TO A SNAPSHOT IN HISTORY 1927, IN CHICAGO, WHERE SINGER MA RAINEY IS MERGING JAZZ AND BLUES WHILE EMERGING AS A STAR. MA RAINEY, HER CHARACTER. SHE ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - People gathered in Columbus on Sunday to celebrate the legacy of blues legend Gertrude “Ma” Rainey. After a weather postponement last week, Ma Fest finally delivered on its ...

The inaugural production held in Madison Arts Center’s new cabaret space is the third in Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company’s August Wilson’s American Century Cycle Experience, “Ma Rainey’s Black ...

This adaptation of Wilson’s play is the second in a ten-part cycle that chronicles the Black experience throughout the course of the 20th century. It’s produced by Denzel Washington, who himself ...

During the wardrobe fitting for Netflix’s adaptation of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, lead actor Viola Davis challenged her glam squad to remove vanity from her transformation into becoming the legendary ...