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...reincarnated as Keep Your Pantheon) and the semiannual Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, and we have what someone once called the triumph of sugar over diabetes. But what of the Loeb Mainstage? After an interesting start with Harlem in the Evening, a play with music based on the works of Langston Hughes, they have now planned The Rivals, Kiss Me Kate, and The Front Page...
...LANGSTON HUGHES once told a story about a manuscript he submitted to a "well-known anthologist." The short story came back from the editor with a letter full of praise, but saying that the characters were not clearly white or black. Would Hughes make them definitely Negro? The re-editing did not take long. Hughes simply inserted "black" in front of the word "man" and "Brown skin" in front of the girl's name and the story was accepted. "Just a plain story about human beings," as Hughes called it, was not acceptable from a black writer. But you have...
Harlem in the Evening is from Langston Hughes, and there's a review of it on page 2. Tonight till Saturday at the Loeb...
Harlem in the Evening is Gene Bone's adaptation of stuff by Langston Hughes, whose poems cry to be read aloud and ought to make for great theater. This weekend and next at the Loeb...
BLACK NATIVITY, by Langston Hughes, is a Christmas play with poetry, dance, and gospel music, presented by the Elma Lewis School and National Center of Afro-American Artists, and sponsored by the Mather House Music Society. Elma Lewis is famous, and Langston Hughes is good, and that combination's rare but impressive. Saturday at 8:30 p.m., in Sanders Theater...