In the 1910s the American theater, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars-preferably Britishthan good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The cha...
In the 1910s the American theatre, long dominated by melodramas, dictatorial producers (most of whom were artless magnates), and an audience more drawn by stars--preferably British--than good scripts, was finally ready to establish its own identity. The...
"I want to be an artist or nothing," wrote aspiring playwright Eugene O'Neill at the age of twenty-five. He pursued his goal relentlessly, and when he died forty years later he had written more than fifty plays, won the Nobel and several Pulitzer prizes,...
The Emperor Jones is a play by Eugene O'Neill which tells the tale of Brutus Jones, an African American man who kills a man, goes to prison, escapes to a Caribbean island, and sets himself up as emperor. The play recounts his story in flashbacks as...
A valuable consequence of the new electronic exhibition technologies (videotape, cable TV, CD-ROM, etc.) is that many almost forgotten films featuring black actors of the distant, pre-civil rights past are now entering a sort of electronic general circulation. This process is shaping a new...
(ST. ANN'S WAREHOUSE; 200 SEATS; $37.50 TOP) NEW YORK A Wooster Group presentation of a play in one act by Eugene O'Neill. Directed by Elizabeth LeCompte. Set, Jim Clayburgh; costumes, Wooster Group; lighting, Jennifer Tipton; original music, David Linton; video, Christopher Kondek; sound,...
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