A rage in Harlem: is the Classical Theatre of Harlem a black theatre company? Does it matter?
American Theatre, July, 2004 by Rux, Carl Hancock
At the present time the world presents us with a spectacle which is so passionately interesting and so full of anxiety that one wonders how the theatre can keep pace with it. --Michel Saint-Denis More than 40 years ago, at the dawn of a turbulent and politically charged decade, an impromptu late-night summit of theatre artists--among them actors Louis Gossett Jr., Esther Rolle and Gertrude Jeannette, director Ed Cambridge and playwright Loften Mitchell--convened in the rectory of the St.
Mark's Church on the Lower East Side of New York City to discuss the (non-existent) state ...
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