Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PLAYHOUSE (Shown on Fridays). Dustin [The Graduate] Hoffman in Ronald Ribman's The Journey of the Fifth Horse, which won the Obie as the best Off-Broadway play of 1965-66. Repeat...
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...four women) turns Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, an atrabilious Peter Weiss tract on the evils of Portuguese colonialism, into a mimetic dance of pain, fury, death and anticipatory joy. For a troupe in its infancy, opening night at Manhattan's St. Mark's Playhouse off Broadway marked a large stride toward the dream of Co-Founder Robert Hooks (Hallelujah, Baby!): "If in ten years we can compete with all the other companies in the country, I'll be satisfied...
...Negro Ensemble Company is a $434,000 Ford Foundation grant, but the igniting will and brainpower belong to a triumvirate who conceived the project and run the company: Hooks, 30, Negro Playwright Douglas Turner Ward, 38, and Gerald Krone, 34, a white producer with a string of off-Broadway hits. "My thoughts were," says Hooks, "producers will only hire a Negro for that special role. Yet there's no reason why the part of a Philadelphia lawyer can't be played by a Negro if he's a better actor than a white...