The Goodman Theatre’s current staging of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” starring E. Faye Butler, led to the reissue of a century ...

August Wilson was a night owl. He would hang out in bars and diners until the wee hours of the morning, his friend, author and University of Washington professor Charles Johnson told me a few years ...

COLUMBUS, GEORGIA — Ma Rainey lives again — and on the same stage where the legendary Mother of the Blues had her premiere. The Springer Opera House's production of Ma Rainey's Black Bottom would be ...

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 ...