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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom at the National Theatre

August Wilson set out to tell the world about the African American experience. His series, Pittsburgh Cycle, focuses serially on each decade in the 20th century, and is mostly set in the Hill district of Pittsburgh in which Wilson grew up.  The exception is Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom set in Chicago and currently playing at the National Theatre.

 

For Wilson plays weren’t about…