Mon 11/27 @ 7PM
The Theatre Program at the Shore Cultural Center is spending the year giving people many ways to get into the work of August Wilson, one of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, who wrote about the experience of growing up black in his hometown of Pittsburgh.
The next installment of its readers’ theater series, however, tackles the one play in his “Century Cycle” — ten plays each of which takes place in a different decade — that does not take place in Pittsburgh.
The third play in the cycle, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom is set in a Chicago recording studio in the 1920s where legendary blues singer Ma Rainey is about to do a session as tensions break out among her band members. Shore Cultural Center’s associate artistic director Terrence Spivey, who leads the theater program, directs a cast that includes Angela Winborn as Ma Rainey, along with Vince Robinson, Leilani Barret, Rodney Freeman and Cool Cleveland’s own Mansfield Frazier as the warring band members.
The reading takes place at the Shore Center Auditorium. General admission is $12.
Euclid, OH 44123