Ma Rainey’s Black Bottomreturns to the Goodman

Source Chicago Reader
Original Load Date April 9, 2026, 1 p.m.
Last Updated April 9, 2026, 1 p.m.
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August Wilson’s _Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom_ was first produced at the Goodman in 1997, and the theater went on to be the first in the United States to produce all ten of the plays in Wilson’s acclaimed Century Cycle of dramas, each examining Black life in a different decade of the 20th century. Chuck...