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Bailey, Peter – Black World, 1971
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Drama, Theater Arts
Barnett, Douglas Q. – Black World, 1971
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Drama, Theater Arts
Gaffney, Floyd – Black World, 1971
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Drama, Theater Arts
Dent, Tom – Black World, 1971
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Drama, Theater Arts
Fuller, Hoyt W. – Black World, 1971
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Drama, Theater Arts
Bailey, Peter; And Others – Black World, 1972
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Black Literature, Drama
Pawley, Thomas – Black World, 1975
A summarization of Paul Lawrence Dunbar's pioneering efforts as a black playwright and an evaluation of his role in the American theatre. (EH)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black History, Black Literature, Drama
Thompson, Larry – Black World, 1975
A chronicle of the inferior images and social stereotypes of blacks as portrayed in early American drama. Through a discussion of representative plays, the development of black theatre is traced and the argument advanced that black playwrights, in responding to white stereotypes, also contributed to the perpetuation of racial myths. (EH)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black History, Black Literature, Black Stereotypes
Smitherman, Geneva – Black World, 1974
Both as director/playwright of New York's New Lafayette Theater and as a writer seriously committed to the forging of a black aesthetic, Ed Bullins brings to the community an artistic synthesis of the Folk-Oral and Formal-Literate Traditions. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Literature, Characterization, Drama
Evans, Don – Black World, 1974
Discusses ed Bullins' role in bringing together in the summer of 1968 a representative collection of works from the Black Arts Movement; the controversy surrounding his 1971 Lincoln Center production of his play, "The Duplex"; and his play, "House Party," a collage of voices and images from Blacktown mounted at The American…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Literature, Characterization, Drama
Hay, Samuel A. – Black World, 1974
Discusses the 1971 Lincoln Center production of "The Duplex", focusing on and refuting Walter Kerr's critical review of that play; Kerr is shown unable or unwilling to accept Bullins' successful use of certain structural innovations--the same ones that he raves about in non-black drama. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Black Literature, Characterization, Drama, Dramatics
King, Woody, Jr. – Black World, 1972
The Artistics director of the Henry Street Settlement House in New York City, who is the leading black producer on the theater scene, discusses the problem of relevance to the black community faced by educational theater. (JM)
Descriptors: Bias, Black Community, Black Culture, Black Literature
Bailey, Peter; And Others – Black World, 1974
This annual feature reviews events and happenings in New York City, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Washington, D.C., Atlanta, San Francisco-Bay Area, and Los Angeles. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Community, Black Culture, Black Literature, Characterization
Steele, Shelby – Black World, 1973
The New Black Theatre dramatizes the values it seeks to reaffirm from play to play: ritual is here achieved through the repetition of patterns, symbols and values from drama to drama, using the six literary devices of allegory, symbol, characterization, recurring themes, language styles, and repetition. (Author/JM)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Literature, Characterization, Drama
