Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BUTTERFLY. Playwright David Henry Hwang reimagines the bizarre espionage case of a French diplomat and his Chinese transvestite lover as a bravura Broadway rap on East vs. West and male vs. female...
Winfield has top billing for now. He's the smash new musical on Broadway. George is so off-Broadway now that he couldn't even sell his act for P.S. 8's third-grade musical revue on the four basic food groups...
With a third Broadway opening, High School Dropout August Wilson is the foremost dramatist of the U. S. black experience...
...haunted the local libraries, reading everything from anthropology to verse, and eventually began to try his own hand at writing, first poetry, then folktale adaptations for performance at a science museum, then plays. By the time Wilson, 42, brought his poignant Joe Turner's Come and Gone to Broadway last week, he had established himself as the foremost dramatist of the American black experience. His Broadway debut, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran nearly ten months and earned the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle prize. Fences won the theater's triple crown -- the 1987 Tony, Pulitzer Prize and Critics...
...cycle of dramas, reflecting black life in each decade of this century. In 1982, through the playwright-development program at Connecticut's O'Neill Theater Center, he met Lloyd Richards, dean of Yale's drama school, who offered the plays a home -- staging them at Yale and later on Broadway. Ma Rainey, the first of their collaborations, depicts a 1920s blues singer who deals with segregation by staying fiercely within a black subculture. Fences, set in the 1950s on the eve of the civil rights era, centers on an embittered former baseball player, too old for the majors when...