National Black Theatre Festival Unites Generations of Artists
Toomer, Jeanette, Black Masks
National Black Theatre Festival Unites Generations of Artists
It was a meeting of the minds of all ages at the Fifth Biennial National Black Theatre Festival (NBTF). This week-long celebration with plays, readings, workshops, and international seminars was produced and hosted by Larry Leon Hamlin and the North Carolina Repertory Company in Winston-Salem, North Carolina from August 4 - 8, 1997. The artistic godfathers (playwrights Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, and Ron Milner) and godmothers (producer- director Barbara Ann Teer, and actors Ellen Holly and Rosanna Carter) brought a wealth of experience and knowledge of theatre aesthetics and history, while the newer set (emerging …
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Article title: National Black Theatre Festival Unites Generations of Artists.
Contributors: Toomer, Jeanette - Author.
Magazine title: Black Masks.
Volume: 12.
Issue: 6
Publication date: February 28, 1998.
Page number: 9.
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