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This article contains mentions of sexual assault. Though the title of the play may suggest otherwise, the Goodman Theatre’s production of August Wilson’s seminal “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” deals ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — MA FEST is an annual celebration free for the public to gather and enjoy, helping to celebrate the life and legacy of Ma Rainey, known as the “Mother of the Blues.” The second ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - People gathered in Columbus on Sunday to celebrate the legacy of blues legend Gertrude “Ma” Rainey. After a weather postponement last week, Ma Fest finally delivered on its ...

This adaptation of Wilson’s play is the second in a ten-part cycle that chronicles the Black experience throughout the course of the 20th century. It’s produced by Denzel Washington, who himself ...

LOS ANGELES, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Film drama "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" may be set in the racially divided United States of the 1920s and was written almost 40 years ago, but it arrives with much to say ...

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 ...

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