Tag: blues

Viola Davis will bring her Oscar-winning acting chops to a film adaptation of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, dramatizing a moment in the life of the queer blues singer. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the upcoming Netflix film follows Rainey “as she makes a record in a studio in 1920s Chicago, where tensions boil over between her, her white agent and producer and the bandmates.” Actor and playwright Ruben Santiago-Hudson, who previously directed an Off-Broadway production of the...