YOU CAN'T DO THAT ON BROADWAY! A RAISIN IN THE SUN AND OTHER THEATRICAL IMPROBABILITIES.(Review)
American Theatre, October, 2001 by Ivry, Benjamin
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by Philip Rose, Limelight Editions, New York. 288 pages, $25 cloth.
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PHILIP ROSE, NOW IN HIS 80TH YEAR, is best known as a producer of plays with African-American themes, like Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 Raisin in the Sun, Ossie Davis's Purlie Victorious and the latter play's 1970 musical version, Purlie. His good will, fair-mindedness and talent for colorblind casting resulted in a number of Broadway firsts: the first African-American woman playwright (Hansberry), first African-American director (Lloyd Richards for Raisin) and first African-American woman conductor for a musical ...
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