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)

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…

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)

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)

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)