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"Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" Refuses to Bow to Whites, at Multi Ethnic Theater, S.F. by Bdhorwitz

August Wilson's Twenties Saga Traces 'Race' Records by Barry David Horwitz "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" burns with suppressed Jazz Age anger: "How to deal with the white man?" Accomplished singer Susie Butler plays  real-life 1920s Ma Rainey, the "Mother of the Blues."  Butler showing us how a powerful Black singer could exert power over... Read More Read More

SOURCE: Theatrius at 09:24PM on August 30, 2019

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