Word: feldshuh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Housed in a converted college building amid the rundown brick facades of downtown, Center Stage has debuted Eric Overmyer's On the Verge or The Geography of Yearning, a sprightly fantasy about three Victorian women explorers that became one of the most widely produced plays of the '80s; David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys, a drama about government experiments on black victims of syphilis that was a 1992 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama; and Overmyer's The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin, a musing on the turn-of-the-century black composer and an unknown peer...
...every college orientation week includes a jolting theatrical experience. But this summer CORNELL UNIVERSITY has sent letters to its 3,000 incoming freshmen urging them to attend campus performances of David Feldshuh's prizewinning 1989 drama Miss Evers' Boys. The play is a searing account of the U.S. government's lethally misguided effort to study the degenerative effects of syphilis on a group of rural black men in Alabama. Opening the school year with the play "is an institutional statement that we would like all of the diverse people on our campus to understand," says Cornell law professor Larry Palmer...