State of the Arts
Alice Childress Rediscovered
Clip: Season 41 Episode 3 | 9m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Alice Childress, whose plays were almost the first by a Black woman on Broadway.
Plays by Alice Childress are suddenly relevant. In 1957, she was on the verge of being the first Black woman to have a play on Broadway, but she refused to compromise in order to make white audiences more comfortable. More than 60 years later, her work is having a renaissance, on Broadway and beyond, including Two River Theater in Red Bank and the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison.
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State of the Arts
Alice Childress Rediscovered
Clip: Season 41 Episode 3 | 9m 56sVideo has Closed Captions
Plays by Alice Childress are suddenly relevant. In 1957, she was on the verge of being the first Black woman to have a play on Broadway, but she refused to compromise in order to make white audiences more comfortable. More than 60 years later, her work is having a renaissance, on Broadway and beyond, including Two River Theater in Red Bank and the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey in Madison.
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Britten's Violin Concerto: Bay Atlantic Symphony and Stefan
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Clip: S41 Ep3 | 5m 7s | Violinist Stefan Jackiw and the Bay Atlantic Symphony perform Britten's Violin Concerto. (5m 7s)
James Wilson Edwards and a Circle of Black Artists
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Clip: S41 Ep3 | 8m 5s | An exhibition of 20th century Black artists in the circle of painter James Wilson Edwards. (8m 5s)
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