From Lead Belly to Janis Joplin, we profile 15 great blues singers who helped shape this most emotive and expressive of music ...

Pete Townshend made his mark with The Who as a very spiritual lyricist. He took the introspection of Bob Dylan and brought it ...

Justin Krieg, director of planning and programs for Historic Columbus, watches as the Alma Thomas House is moved May 12, 2026 ...

The 63rd season at Providence's Trinity Repertory Company will be one of transition, with a new artistic director, and a ...

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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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 ...

The Goodman Theatre was forced to cancel its Saturday matinee of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” due to the death of cast member Matt DeCaro. The theater also said Saturday that the cast had decided to ...

The Goodman Theatre’s current staging of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” starring E. Faye Butler, led to the reissue of a century-old blues album. When “Ma Rainey” burst onto the stage at opening night of ...

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Ma Fest, paying homage to the “rich cultural traditions of the South” and named after Columbus native Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, known as the “Mother of the Blues,” will take place this Saturday from 4-9 p ...

Set in Chicago, it take place in a 1920s recording studio, where the legendary Ma Rainey (F. Faye Butler), the Mother of the Blues, is about to lay down a series of tracks. Her band consists of ...