“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Sings the Blues, at Multi Ethnic Theater, S.F.
August Wilson Brings Ma Rainey to Life in Jim Crow America by Barry Thornton August Wilson’s 1920s Jazz Age play opens with a mic check in a small recording studio in Chicago, as Irvin and Mel, two white men, are arguing about recording Ma Rainey, famed Mother of the Blues. “I can handle her,…
