Modest Beginnings, Towering Legacy: The Negro Ensemble Company
Out of conversations and readings in an actor’s apartment, one of the great American theatre companies was born.
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Out of conversations and readings in an actor’s apartment, one of the great American theatre companies was born.
In his last interview, he talks about the Negro Ensemble Company’s heady heyday, and its influential Playwrights’ Workshop.
The founder of Harlem’s National Black Theatre strove to make art that would liberate and heal.
Though his 1982 hit ‘A Soldier’s Play’ is now on Broadway, its writer’s only real ambition has been to tell the truth about people he’d never seen onstage.
The writer best known for ‘Black Girl’ discusses her long career, ranging from the Civil Rights era to today.
We have so many theatre riches before us. If we don’t engage with them fully and forthrightly, we’re effectively taking them for granted.
The playwright, a stalwart of Negro Ensemble Company and Victory Gardens, recalls his good fortune over a long career.
Whose programs do the programmers admire most? We asked some U.S. theatre leaders and they told us.
The actor Brandon Dirden speaks about his life’s work, while playwright Mac Rogers branches out into a perfect new medium for his talents.
From ‘The Wizard of Oz’ to the Negro Ensemble Company, another eventful month on the stage.