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Rachel is a play that was written in 1916 by African American teacher, playwright and poet Angelina Weld Grimké (February 27, 1880 – June 10, 1958). Grimké submitted the play to the Drama Committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). For the first production of the play the program read: "This is the ...
Fences is a 1985 play by the American playwright August Wilson.Set in the 1950s, it is the sixth in Wilson's ten-part "Pittsburgh Cycle".Like all of the "Pittsburgh" plays, Fences explores the evolving African-American experience and examines race relations, among other themes.
Dutchman is a play written by playwright Amiri Baraka, then known as LeRoi Jones. Dutchman was first presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, New York City, in March 1964 co-produced by Rita Fredricks.
The book "Love and Admiration and Respect": The O'Neill-Commins Correspondence" includes an extended account written by Saxe Commins, O'Neill's publisher, in which he talks of "snatches of dialogue" between Carlotta and O'Neill over the disappearance of a group of manuscripts that O'Neill had brought with him from San Francisco. "When the table ...
Joe Turner's Come and Gone is a play by American playwright August Wilson.It is the second installment of his decade-by-decade chronicle of the African-American experience, The Pittsburgh Cycle, also known as The Century Cycle.
This drama began as the Joe Biden vs. Donald Trump rematch from their 2020 showdown began evolving. The Democrat won by more than 7 million votes, and an Electoral College victory of 306 to 232 ...
American Feminist Playwrights (1996) online; Fisher, James. ed. Historical Dictionary of Contemporary American Theater: 1930-2010 (2 vol. 2011) Krasner, David. American Drama 1945 – 2000: An Introduction (2006) Krasner, David. A beautiful pageant : African American theatre, drama, and performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910-1927 (2002) online
The Emperor's Club is a 2002 American drama film directed by Michael Hoffman and starring Kevin Kline.Based on Ethan Canin's 1994 short story "The Palace Thief", the film follows a prep school teacher and his students at a fictional East Coast boys' prep school, St. Benedict's Academy.