This is a classic Youtube interview between Dr. Roscoe C. Brown and Woody King Jr. They spoke about Black Theatre aesthetic, issues, trends, mechanics, race and black world depictions.
Today there is a complex world were the art forms and the artists are rarely in a narrative about what’s going on and what we are seeing.
I met both of these scholars and men around New Rochelle and in NYC and at the National Black Theatre Festival that I served as development consultant to under the leadership of the late Larry Leon Hamlin for 15+ years.
Broadway’s “Tony Awards” Administration Committee announced it will present Tony’s to Woodie King, Jr., and Irene Gandy this year. I have worked with both of them. Legacy artists in the arts and humanities carry history and the power of the written and spoken word.
Art imitates life — only if we think about the polemics of life. Salute to Woody and Irene.
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