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Jun 5, 2024 · Forty-four years after Samm-Art Williams' wonderfully affecting Home first opened on Broadway (in a Tony nominated production), the playwright and his signature play were finally about to get a ...
Jun 8, 2024 · To appreciate “Home,” Samm-Art Williams’s celebrated play from 1979, is, in part, to be drawn back in time, to the heyday of the Negro Ensemble Company, headquartered in New York City.
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Jun 3, 2024 · Willliams began his New York career as a member of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) and was an integral part of that company’s rise to national prominence in the 1970s.
Jun 5, 2024 · But for Home, which debuted downtown in 1979 under the aegis of the Negro Ensemble Company before moving to a successful Broadway run the next year, Cephus’s weary return after many trials is...
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Jun 7, 2024 · Home was originally produced by The Negro Ensemble Company in 1979, transferring to Broadway the next year, receiving a Tony nomination for Best Play. Author Samm-Art Williams passed away at 78 just days before previews of this revival.
Jun 8, 2024 · In high school, I got a chance to be in a program called Upward Bound, and I saw the Negro Ensemble Company, and I had never seen that many Black people onstage in my life. The work they were...
Jun 17, 2024 · After he spent two years in Los Angeles as a social worker, Jackson returned to Morehouse to study acting, having been inspired by a Negro Ensemble Company production. He graduated in 1972 and then joined the Black Image Theatre Company, touring the country and performing in politically charged skits, primarily to white audiences.
