George C. Wolfe

Television/Theater Review: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — Listening to the Lessons of the Blues

December 10, 2020

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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is a stellar artistic accomplishment, a blazingly powerful dramatic experience.

Theater Review: “The Colored Museum” — Raucous, Riveting, But Out of Sync

March 15, 2015

Posted in Featured, Review, Theater

George C. Wolfe’s 1986 collection of vignettes that spoof and celebrate black stereotypes occasionally plays like reruns from the ’90s TV show In Living Color.

George C. Wolfe

Television/Theater Review: “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” — Listening to the Lessons of the Blues

Theater Review: “The Colored Museum” — Raucous, Riveting, But Out of Sync

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