Ma Rainey's Black Bottom ****
By: David Sheward January 9, 2020: In the 20th century, the number of African-American playwrights who have had financially successful, non-musical productions on Broadway can be counted on the fingers of one hand"Lorraine Hansberry (A Raisin in the Sun) and August Wilson (Fences, Joe Turner's Come and Gone, etc.). The situation has not improved much in the 21st. The record of transferring the plays of these aut…