EXCLUSIVE: Taylour Paige (Zola, Jean of the Joneses, White Boy Rick), Jonny Coyne (The Nun, Nightcrawler), Jeremy Shamos (Birdman, The Big Sick), and Dusan Brown (The Lion Guard, 42) have been adde…
They are joining previously announced Oscar winner Viola Davis,Chadwick Boseman, Emmy winner Glynn Turman, Colman Domingo, and Michael Potts. George C. Wolfe, the director behind the Emmy nominated miniseries,, is directing this project.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson adapted the screenplay which follows Ma Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues,” and the tensions that boil over between her white agent, her producer, and her bandmates while making a record in a studio in Chicago, 1927. The play opened at Broadway’s Cort Theatre in October 1984 and earned a Tony nomination as well as a New York Drama Critics Circle Award that same year. The play was revived in ’03 with Whoopi Goldberg and original cast member Charles S. Dutton starring.
Todd Black and Dany Wolf will produce alongside Washington while Constanza Romero serves as executive producer.
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