Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Viola Davis transforms into the Mother of the Blues for her award-winning role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — and while she ...

Rule number one: Ma Rainey’s not singing until she gets a cold Coca-Cola. George C. Wolf’s reimagining of August Wilson’s Pulitzer prize-winning 1982 play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, is a story of the ...

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom was August Wilson’s first Broadway hit—and a preamble to his cycle of award-winning plays about the African-American experience across the 20th Century that included Fences ...

In the Netflix drama that spotlights a Chicago recording session, Ma Rainey argues with a cop about a fender bender. “You going to let me tell the story?” he asks her, exasperated. Rainey, as ...

Viola Davis transforms into the Mother of the Blues for her award-winning role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — and while she delivers a powerhouse performance, former Ikette and soul singer Maxayn ...

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is now available to watch on Netflix, marking Chadwick Boseman's final movie performance. The powerful drama tells the story of an afternoon recording session in 1920s Chicago ...

Viola Davis transforms into the Mother of the Blues for her award-winning role in “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — and while she delivers a powerhouse performance, former Ikette and soul singer Maxayn ...