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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company

Dates: 9/14/2018 - 10/1/2018

Theatre:

Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company


937 Liberty Avenue, 3rd Floor
Pittsburgh,PA 15222

Phone: 412-377-7803

Tickets: $35, $20 students w/ ID


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Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company alongside the August Wilson Center-African American Cultural Center will produce August Wilson’s classic, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom for the first annual Highmark Blues and Heritage Festival.

The play takes place during a single afternoon in a recording studio with the famous blues singer, Ma Rainey. It is the first of Wilson’s ten-play American Century Cycle which is now considered a staple of American theater.

Businesswoman and entertainer Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, known as the Mother of the Blues, was the most popular blues singer/songwriter of the 1920s. She is considered to be the first woman to introduce Blues into her performances.


Ages: 14 and above



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