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Meet the August Wilson Expert Who Wrote 'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' for the Screen by Gordon Cox

Audiences won't see Ruben Santiago-Hudson on screen in the new Netflix adaptation of "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," but theater fans can rest assured that the writer-actor-director " one of the foremost interpreters of playwright August Wilson's work " had a major hand in shifting the story from the stage to the screen. He penned the […]

SOURCE: Variety at 03:17PM on December 22, 2020

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