Jesse L. Kearney Jr. Dies: Playwright And Strong Advocate For Black Opportunities In Theater Was 49
Jesse L. Kearney Jr., a playwright, a recipient of the Dramatists Guild’s Jonathan Larson Musical Theater Fellowship and the ...
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Black-led plays about family and history come to Atlanta theater companies
Two Atlanta theater companies are collaborating with community organizations and Black professionals for new productions.
Remembering South African playwright Athol Fugard
Fugard, who died March 8, was a white South African whose plays explored the consequences of Apartheid. He was later awarded a Tony Award for lifetime achievement. Originally broadcast in 1986.
Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92
The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other realities." ...
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South African playwright who depicted apartheid and its aftermath has died
Athol Fugard worked with Black actors to create plays about life under apartheid in South Africa, often drawing from small personal moments, then telescoping them into wider observations of society.
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Athol Fugard, trenchant South African playwright, dies at 92
engagement between foreign playwrights and South African theaters, found the boycott a disappointing response. In 1963, he formed the Serpent Players with a group of Black actors in Port Elizabeth ...
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Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92
The playwright was born in 1932 and grew up in ... where white 17-year-old Hally spends an afternoon with two Black men who work there, Sam and Willie. They are surrogate fathers for the confused ...