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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Tensions and temperatures rise at a Chicago music studio in 1927 when fiery, fearless blues singer Ma Rainey joins her band for a fraught recording session. Egos and generational ideologies clash as heated conflicts erupt between everyone present in this powerhouse play. Support American Theatre: a just and thriving theatre ecology begins with information for all. Please join us in this mission by making a donation to our publisher, Theatre Communications Group. When you support American Theatre magazine and TCG, you support a long legacy…

Tensions and temperatures rise at a Chicago music studio in 1927 when fiery, fearless blues singer Ma Rainey joins her band for a fraught recording session. Egos and generational ideologies clash as heated conflicts erupt between everyone present in this powerhouse play.

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