
CSC’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Hits the Perfect Note Depicting the Black Experience During the Roaring ’20s
Wiggins is larger than life in her portrayal of the well-known blues singer who has a clear understanding of what life as a black musician

Wiggins is larger than life in her portrayal of the well-known blues singer who has a clear understanding of what life as a black musician

CSC’s production of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” is beautiful, important, and some of the most effective storytelling I have ever experienced.

See Shucked. Broadway in Cincinnati’s current musical comedy is a corn-fed, joke-stuffed, gosh darn delight from first note to final bow.

This show is bright, silly, and refreshingly unpretentious. The colors pop, the songs are easy to follow, and the story doesn’t ask you to work too hard.

The production keeps the audience leaning in and at the edge of their seats, with Wiggins embodying a cast of multitudes and inviting us into a story that unfolds deliberately, poetically, and, by the end, collectively.