Meet the August Wilson Expert Who Wrote ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ for the Screen
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variety.comGordon Cox Theater EditorAudiences won’t see Ruben Santiago-Hudson on screen in the new Netflix adaptation of “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” but theater fans can rest assured that the writer-actor-director — one of the foremost interpreters of playwright August Wilson’s work — had a major hand in shifting the story from the stage to the screen.
He penned the screenplay, which streamlines and reimagines the two-act play into a fleet, 94-minute movie that stars Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:His familiarity with Wilson’s work, and his long friendship and collaboration with the man himself, made his job both easier and more difficult, he explained on the new episode of Stagecraft, Variety’s.
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