This Month in Theatre History
June looks back on Frederick Douglass’s criticisms of blackface, Uta Hagen’s legacy, Eugene O’Neill’s nine-act ‘Interlude,’ Steppenwolf’s ‘Menagerie,’ and a Lynne Nottage premiere.
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June looks back on Frederick Douglass’s criticisms of blackface, Uta Hagen’s legacy, Eugene O’Neill’s nine-act ‘Interlude,’ Steppenwolf’s ‘Menagerie,’ and a Lynne Nottage premiere.
October saw Congress vote against theatre, Frederick Douglass inveighing against minstrelsy, a ‘Shuffle Along’ sequel, a gravity-defying musical, and the passing of a genre-defining playwright.
In dramatizing questions about the man whose beating by police incited riots, solo artist Roger Guenveur Smith finds story that’s deeply American—and quintessentially L.A.