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...play, which opened last week, also has a female director, Jenny Lyn Bader, and two female producers, Anne Langston and Roberta Kellman. In a reversal of traditional casting, it features 14 women players in the 27 male and female roles...
Bader says the idea first occurred to Langston and her when they were discussing the limited opportunities for women in Harvard theater...
Rampersad, whose recently published biography of Langston Hughes received national acclaim, is "a master scholar and is world class by any standards," according to Baker. But Baker cautions against placing Rampersad, who received his Ph.D at Harvard, in the same category with the literary theorists. "He doesn't really see the same urgency and incumbency to theorize," Baker says...
Rampersad, whose recent biography of Langston Hughes is "the founding work in Afro-American literary biography," according to University of Pennsylvania Professor Houston Baker, is part of a new generation of Black scholars, educated in top-flight universities around the period of the Civil Rights movement and the student anti-war movement...
Seattle (78-84, AL West, fourth): A lot of young players (Alvin Davis, Hal Reynolds) and some consistent pitching (Mark Langston) have turned the Mariners into a contender. The deal for the Phillies' Glenn Wilson (.264, 14 HR, 54 RBI) and Baltimore's Ken Dixon (7-10) might help Dick Williams' club. Best player: Davis...