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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at Writers Theatre

Dates: (2/6/2019 - 3/17/2019 )

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Writers Theatre


325 Tudor Ct, Glencoe, IL, 60022
Glencoe, 60022

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Alexandra C. and John D. Nichols Theatre:

August Wilson; dir: Ron OJ Parson.

Blues diva Ma Rainey and her band have come to a Chicago studio to cut a record, but their artistic differences nearly stop the session before it starts. Full of unforgettable characters and the raw power of the blues, this 1920s installment of Wilson's groundbreaking cycle of plays confronts the issues of race, fame, and generational divides through the rhythms of the African-American South.

August Wilson (1945-2005) The most-produced African-American playwright of all time, August Wilson was a self-taught writer whose distinctive style combined poeticism and everyday slang. The plays of his remarkable Pittsburgh Cycle chronicled the black experience in America in every decade of the 20thcentury, winning two Pulitzer Prizes and redefining African-American storytelling for a generation of theatergoers.

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