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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Play August Wilson
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

WGNO News with a Twist Features Reporter Wild Bill Wood puts Ma and the rest of the cast in the. The August Wilson play "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" is on stage at The Anthony Bean Theater. Mar 28, 2012 - “This world would be empty without the blues,” says legendary singer Ma Rainey (Yvette Freeman) as she discusses with her band the importance of the music they play, as well as life for African-Americans as they try to make their mark in a country It is this interplay that characterizes the Huntington Theatre's production of August Wilson's masterpiece “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,” directed by Liesl Tommy and running at the Boston University Theatre through April 8. The show will run through April 8th. Mar 21, 2012 - So it takes you a bit aback to see former ART regulars Thomas Derrah and Will LeBow on the Huntington stage as the late playwright's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom gets under way (through April 8). Mar 19, 2012 - BOSTON – “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom,” currently on stage at the BU Theatre, is a volatile brew of sex and danger, exploitation, oppression, death and the devil. Apr 7, 2011 - Starting this week at your neighborhood theater on Prescott Street is another August Wilson play by Portland Playhouse. Mar 8, 2012 - The Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning writer August Wilson's play “Ma Rainey's Black Bottom” comes to the Huntington Theater Company (264 Huntington Ave) starting this Saturday! Apr 20, 2010 - Ma Rainey is no more the main character in August Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom than Godot is the main character in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. Mar 31, 2012 - Huntington Theatre Company is presenting August Wilson's award-winning play, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the Boston University Theatre, from March 9 through April 8, 2012. In fact, Wilson could have titled his play Waiting for Ma. Jan 23, 2009 - The sounds of 1927 Chicago blues will fill The Beck Center for the Arts from Jan. The bad news for Derrah and LeBow is that And the bad news for everyone else is that this early Wilson play is his weakest, written before he found the right balance of rap sessions, character development, and dramatic action. Mar 9, 2008 - Chicago blues legend Ma Rainey sets out to record her latest album in the only one of Wilson's 10 plays set beyond Pittsburgh. Sep 28, 2009 - "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," which is running through October 18 at the Court Theatre, is part of August Wilson's Pittsburgh cycle, but is set on the south side of Chicago in the 1920s.