Blues musician Charlie Apicella’s formula for success is simple: He awakens every day creating music to make Ma Rainey proud. Apicella never met Rainey, who died in 1939, but he said it is impossible ...
The inaugural production held in Madison Arts Center’s new cabaret space is the third in Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company’s August Wilson’s American Century Cycle Experience, “Ma Rainey’s Black ...
Ma Rainey and her band the Rabbit Foot Minstrels circa 1924 in Chicago, Illinois. Ma Rainey and her band the Rabbit Foot Minstrels circa 1924 in Chicago, Illinois.Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/ ...