BroadwayWorld is saddened to report that Aleta Mitchell, who appeared in the original Broadway cast of Ma Rainey's Black ...

Her big-screen résumé also included ‘No Mercy, ‘Valmont,' ‘Malcolm X' and ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.' ...

During a new interview, Colman Domingo recalled the kind words his Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom co-star Chadwick Boseman once ...

The longtime Chicago actor Matt DeCaro died early Saturday at home. He worked across the decades at most major Chicago theaters and appeared in movies and TV series.

Matt DeCaro, a Chicago actor whose career spanned decades and included a performance in the Goodman Theatre's currently-running production “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom," has died. The Goodman Theatre ...

When the actor Matt DeCaro was not feeling well Saturday morning, he was reluctant to go in an ambulance to the hospital, said his wife, Sheila O’Callaghan. “He said he had a matinee,” O’Callaghan ...

Chicago actor Matt DeCaro never took being a working actor for granted. Last week, before an unusually early-in-the-day staging of August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” at the Goodman Theatre, ...

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This year, the Best Original Score category contains nods to Joe Turner's Come and Gone and Death of a Salesman .

Domingo recalled the late actor championing him years before their collaboration in "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom" and says that ...

August Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize twice for "Fences" and "The Piano Lesson." He also deserved to win for "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" and "Joe Turner's Come and Gone," which receives a stirring ...

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