“It would be an empty world without the blues.”
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
Viola Davis
Ma Rainey
Chadwick Boseman
Levee
Colman Domingo
Cutler
Glynn Turman
Toledo
Michael Potts
Slow Drag
Jeremy Shamos
Irvin
Jonny Coyne
Sturdyvant
Taylour Paige
Dussie Mae
Dusan Brown
Sylvester
Joshua Harto
Policeman
Quinn VanAntwerp
Band Singer
Chloe Davis
Ma Rainey's Dancer
The Whole Gritty City
Everyone Is Perfect
Dying to Sleep
Are We Ok?
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Bessie
Cadillac Records
I Am Woman
Rocketman
Hounddog
The Adjuster
Born to Be Blue
The Pleasures of a Woman
The Human Side
Sharon and the Vege Plot
The Sympathy Card
Six Feet Apart
The Trial of the Chicago 7
De-Lovely
Beats