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1940 proved to be a pivotal year for African-American theater. Frederick O'Neal and Abram Hill founded ANT, or the American Negro Theater, the most renowned African-American theater group of the 1940s. Their stage was small and located in the basement of a library in Harlem, and most of the shows were attended and written by African-Americans.
The Theatre Historical Society of America (THS) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit founded in 1969 to promote the legacy of America's historic theatres and insure the documentation of the architectural, cultural and social history of those theatres. Through programs that include the collections in the American Theatre Architecture Archive, regional ...
A defining aspect of theatre of the 1920s was the development of jazz. [1] Jazz was credited with being the "first distinctively American art form to disseminate US culture, style, and modernity across the globe". [1] Jazz's spread across the globe also applied to American lives and art forms.
The 1950 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 151,325,798, an increase of 14.5 percent over the 131,669,275 persons enumerated during the 1940 census. [1] This was the first census in which: More than one state recorded a population of over 10 million
Theatre World is the recipient of a 2001 Tony Honor for Excellence in Theatre, presented by the American Theatre Wing. On behalf of the publication, longtime editor-in-chief, John Willis (1916-2010), [ 6 ] accepted honors including the first Special Lucille Lortel Award , a Special Drama Desk Award , and the Broadway Theatre Institute (now The ...
American Theater or American Theatre may refer to: Theater in the United States, about stage theater in the U.S. Camp Street Theatre, New Orleans, known as the ...
American theater awards (9 C, 63 P) Asian-American theatre (3 C, 25 P) B. Blackface minstrelsy (8 C, 23 P) Booth family (13 P) C. Cabaret in the United States (1 C, 6 ...
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