Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

From the extraordinary mind of playwright August Wilson came one of the United States’ most renowned stories of race and music. Inspired by the real life of legendary blues singer Gertrude “Ma” Rainey, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a powerful installment in Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Century Cycle — 10 illustrious plays that explore the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th century.