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