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It's 1926 Chicago, and Ma Rainey, “The Mother of the Blues,” takes her time getting ready to record. Tensions and temperatures rise as the musicians recount tales of rage, joy, betrayal and faith in ...
A Noise Within unveiled its 35th anniversary 2026-27 season, 'Those Better Angels,' featuring six classic plays including ...
E. Faye Butler plays Ma Rainey, the titular “Mother of the Blues” in Goodman Theatre’s revival of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” August Wilson’s 1927-set play in his Century Cycle, which chronicles the ...
Al’Jaleel McGhee had been waiting for Levee Green. That’s the only explanation for this young actor’s truly astonishing performance as August Wilson’s impetuous young blues trumpeter, a ...
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 ...
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