Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play The time is 1927.
It is a riveting portrayal of Black rage, of racism, of the self-hate that racism breeds, and of racial exploitation..
What goes down in the session to come is more than music.
Waiting for her are her Black musician sidemen, the white owner of the record company, and her white manager.
Ma Rainey, the legendary blues singer, is due to arrive with her entourage to cut new sides of old favorites.
The place is a run-down recording studio in Chicago.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Play The time is 1927
