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Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 [1] – August 14, 1994) was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades."
The African Grove Theatre was attended by "all types of black New Yorkers -- free and slave, middle-class and working-class" [1] along with others. It was the first place where Ira Aldridge , who would later become an esteemed and renowned Shakespearian actor, first saw a production of a Shakespeare play.
Anna Lucasta is a 1944 American play by Philip Yordan.Inspired by Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, the play was originally written about a Polish American family.The American Negro Theatre director Abram Hill and director Harry Wagstaff Gribble adapted the script for an all African American cast, and presented the first performance on June 16, 1944.
A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller is the story of the murder of a black soldier on a Southern army base during World War II, and the subsequent investigation by a black army captain. It examines black pride and black self-hatred, and won both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play awards.
The play is still anthologized and performed around the world. The autobiography adapted from the play was also critically acclaimed. [3] In 1972, Michael Schultz directed a made-for-TV movie, also titled To Be Young, Gifted and Black, based on the stage play. It featured Roy Scheider, Blythe Danner, and Ruby Dee. [4]
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When W. E. B. Du Bois saw a production of the Negro Players performing Ridgely Torrence's Three Plays for a Negro Theater in 1917, it influenced him to write, "The present spiritual production in the souls of Black folk is going to give American stage a drama that will lift it above silly songs and leg shows."