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A notable irony of African American theater history of the 1940s is that the decade's most influential black ensemble, the American Negro Theatre...
African American Review, 09/22/08 by Jonathan Shandell · More from publication -
Flights of fancy in a world of trouble: Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak imbue a pair of Holocaust-era operas with vibrant fantasy.

Call it a May-December partnership. Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak--two iconic American artists with 28 years separating them in age--have...
American Theatre, 11/01/05 by Shandell, Jonathan · More from publication -
Authors! Authors! Increasingly, American stages are rife with collaborative plays authored by a motley of writers.

"Wonderful chaos. That's a perfect way to describe the process." So says Chiori Miyagawa, looking back on The Antigone Project--an October 2004...
American Theatre, 03/01/05 by Shandell, Jonathan · More from publication -
Melissa James Gibson: city living; A playwright's weighty themes come to rest on younger shoulders.(profiles)(Interview)

Sasha's problem, as problems go, appears manageable enough. This 11-year-old, the heroine of Melissa James Gibson's new children's play Brooklyn...
American Theatre, 01/01/05 by Shandell, Jonathan · More from publication -
You can go 'Home' again: how Samm-Art Williams finally got the collaborator--and the musical--he always envisioned.(Critic's Notebook)(Home the Musical)

When Samm-Art Williams's comedy Home debuted in 1979, no one saw it as anything but a complete, fully rendered drama. The play was one in a...
American Theatre, 10/01/04 by Shandell, Jonathan · More from publication -
Habeas theatre: a Boston program aims to educate young citizens by impaneling history-based plays.(Blueprints)

From their seats in a chamber of Boston's federal courthouse, 90 or so ninth-graders stand, raise their right hands and swear "as a member of the...
American Theatre, 05/01/04 by Shandell, Jonathan · More from publication
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