Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 93 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- chicago
- illinois
- recording studio
- based on play or musical
- singer
- lesbian relationship
- lgbt
- blues music
- black lgbt
- trumpet player
- 1920s
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- 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
- Mayte Natalio — Ma Rainey's Dancer
- Johanna Elmina Moise — Ma Rainey's Dancer
- Onyxx Noel — Ma Rainey's Dancer
- Directed
- George C. Wolfe
- Written
- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 1,278 ratings
- Studio
- Escape Artists, Mundy Lane Entertainment
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
