Colman Domingo, Michael Potts & Glynn Turman on Why Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Connects Audiences to the Theater They Miss by Beth Stevens

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' the Netflix movie adapted from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner August Wilson's play of the same name is a gem. Producer Denzel Washington has made a commitment to bring all of Wilson's Century Cycle (his series of 10 plays that charts the Black experience throughout the twentieth century) to the screen. Ma Rainey takes place in 1927 and examines music, power, ambition and race at a Chicago re…

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