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 ...

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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 ...

The Goodman Theatre was forced to cancel its Saturday matinee of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” due to the death of cast member Matt DeCaro. The theater also said Saturday that the cast had decided to ...

Matt DeCaro, a Chicago actor whose career spanned decades and included a performance in the Goodman Theatre's currently-running production “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom," has died. The Goodman Theatre ...

Chicago actor Matt DeCaro never took being a working actor for granted. Last week, before an unusually early-in-the-day staging of August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” at the Goodman Theatre, ...

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 ...