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Additional authors

1. Wilson, August
2. Brustein, Robert, 1927-2023
3. Smith, Anna Deavere
4. Sullivan, John.
5. Samuels, Steven
6. Reed, Bobby
7. Cosier, E. David
8. Booth, Debra
9. Hughes, Allen Lee
10. Semonin, David
11. Corwin, Betty L.
12. Triton Sound.
13. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
14. Theatre Communications Group.

Description

1. 2 videodiscs (DVD) (127 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Debate between August Wilson and Robert Brustein about the role of black theater and black actors in the American cultural mainstream.

Uniform title

1. American theatre.

Subject

1. Black theater
2. Brustein, Robert Sanford, 1927-
3. African American dramatists
4. Biculturalism > United States
5. African American theater
6. Debates and debating
7. Wilson, August

Call number

1. NCOW 187

Note

1. A debate between August Wilson and Robert Brustein regarding casting and cultural issues which had begun with Mr. Wilson's address to the Theatre Communication Group's national conference in June 1996, and was then chronicled in the September and October 1996 issues of American Theatre magazine and other publications.

Credits (note)

1. Set design, E. David Cosier, Debra Booth ; lighting, Allen Lee Hughes ; sound, Triton Sound ; production stage manager, David Semonin.

Performer (note)

1. Participants: August Wilson and Robert Brustein, with Anna Deavere Smith, moderator. Ms. Smith introduced by John Sullivan, Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group.

Event (note)

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The Town Hall, New York, N.Y., Jan. 27, 1997.

Title

1. On cultural power : the August Wilson/Robert Brustein discussion [videorecording] / producers, John Sullivan, Steven Samuels, Bobby Reed ; presenter, American Theatre magazine ; [video producer, Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director]

Imprint

1. New York, 1997.

Credits

1. Set design, E. David Cosier, Debra Booth ; lighting, Allen Lee Hughes ; sound, Triton Sound ; production stage manager, David Semonin.

Performer

1. Participants: August Wilson and Robert Brustein, with Anna Deavere Smith, moderator. Ms. Smith introduced by John Sullivan, Executive Director, Theatre Communications Group.

Event

1. Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The Town Hall, New York, N.Y., Jan. 27, 1997.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Theatre on Film and Tape Archive Special Collections material

Added author

1. Wilson, August, speaker.
2. Brustein, Robert, 1927-2023, speaker.
3. Smith, Anna Deavere, moderator.
4. Sullivan, John.
5. Samuels, Steven, producer.
6. Reed, Bobby, producer.
7. Cosier, E. David, set designer.
8. Booth, Debra, set designer.
9. Hughes, Allen Lee, lighting designer.
10. Semonin, David, production stage manager.
11. Corwin, Betty L.
12. Triton Sound.
13. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
14. Theatre Communications Group.

Added title

1. American theatre.

Research call number

1. NCOW 187