Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," the first of his plays to reach Broadway, catapulted the author's playwriting career.

Every once in a while, a show stops you in your tracks. Goodman Theatre’s tectonic revival of August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is one of them. Take note, New York producers: director Chuck ...

A revival of the play, "Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” a co-production with the Olney Theatre, is now playing at Round House Theatre in Bethesda, Maryland. During her time, Ma Rainey was known as “the ...

There’s a lot of talking, posturing, and jostling over who’s the boss in August Wilson’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, now at Round House Theatre in a solid co-production with Olney Theatre Center. Set ...

The Yale Repertory Theatre has put together a solid, heavy, unexpectedly warmhearted and just plain great-looking production of August Wilson’s breakthrough play “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” The play, ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stage and screen star Harry Lennix is back in his hometown of Chicago with the theater that staged one of his acclaimed ...