Appearances

work by Anderson

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Black theater

  • King Hedley II
    In Black theater

    Garland Anderson’s play Appearances (1925) was the first play of African American authorship to be produced on Broadway, but Black theater did not create a Broadway hit until Langston Hughes’s Mulatto (1935) won wide acclaim. In that same year the Federal Theatre Project was founded, providing a training…

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