Was Ma Rainey a Play?

Maya Lin-Takahashi
Maya Lin-Takahashi
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom Is a 1982 Play – One of the Ten-Play Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson August Wilson Wilson's Best-Known Plays Are Fences (1985)...

Was Ma Rainey a Play?

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Pittsburgh Cycle by August Wilson

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Wilson's best-known plays are Fences (1985) (which won a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award), The Piano Lesson (1990) (a Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award), Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, and Joe Turner's Come and Gone.
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– that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience.

Is Ma Rainey based on a true story?

Is Ma Rainey's Black Bottom based on a true story? No. The movie is based on August Wilson's 1982 play of the same name.

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