Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Ensemble Theatre is a non-profit organization founded by George Hawkins in 1976 as a touring company that rehearsed in a church basement. [2]In 2003, the company was awarded $250,000 from the Houston Endowment Inc., with which it retired its original capital campaign debt and made some improvements to the facility.
Sherman Houston Dudley (1872 – March 1, 1940) was an African-American vaudeville performer and theatre entrepreneur. He gained notability in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as an individual performer, a composer of ragtime songs, and as a member and later owner of various minstrel shows including the Smart Set Company.
The oldest black church in Houston is Trinity United Methodist Church, which was started by Rev. Elias Dibble who came from Mississippi to establish churches. [57] The oldest Black Baptist church in Houston is the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, historically a part of the Freedmen's Town of Fourth Ward and now in Downtown Houston. [58]
The Chitlin' Circuit was a collection of performance venues found throughout the eastern, southern, and upper Midwest areas of the United States. They provided commercial and cultural acceptance for African-American musicians, comedians, and other entertainers following the era of venues run by the "white-owned-and-operated Theatre Owners Booking Association (TOBA)...formed in 1921."
Rites and Reason Theatre is a theater within the Africana Studies department of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.It was founded in 1970 by Professor George Houston Bass, and Professor Rhett Jones, is one of the longest-running continuously producing black theaters in the United States. [1]
Her book, Their Place on the Stage has been described as "a reference work important to anyone studying black women playwrights or black drama". [2] Brown-Guillory was formerly professor of English at the University of Houston. [1] Since 2009 she is Distinguished Professor of Theatre at Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas.
STATE OF THE ARTS: A special performance for Black audiences at Stratford East has been mischaracterised by those trying to shut down the real issues, writes Nicole Vassell
In 1895, Dudley joined his first black minstrel show at The People's Theater in Houston Texas. [2] In these minstrel shows, whether the performer was white or black, they were masked in blackface while they performed songs and dances about black slaves.