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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
1982 play by August Wilson
For the 2020 film adaptation, see Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (film).
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience.
The play is set in a recording studio in 1920s Chicago, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers.
The play's title comes from Ma Rainey's song of the same name, which refers to the Black Bottom dance.
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Rainey, whose life as a well-known blues-singer of the 1920s is an inspiration for the play, is also the titular character.
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom was published in the early 1980s and premiered at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center.
Its Broadway debut at the Cort Theatre in 1984 won a New York Drama Critics' Circle award and garnered a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. In 2020, Wilson's play was adapted for film.
