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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
Hay, Samuel A. – Black World, 1972
Explores the influence of the work of Professor Alain Locke on the attitudes taken by black dramatists towards art as related to propaganda and revolution. (JM)
Descriptors: Black Culture, Black Literature, Didacticism, Drama
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
Pawley, Thomas D. – Black World, 1972
Profiles several little-known black playwrights active over a century ago: James Brown, Ira Aldridge, Victor Sejour, and William Wells Brown. (JM)
Descriptors: Authors, Biographies, Black Culture, Black History
