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Negro Theatre Project WPA Photo Gallery: From Horse Play to Haiti to Macbeth by Jonathan Mandell

Below are photographs from productions of the "Negro Unit" of the Federal Theatre Project, some 30 of which were staged at Lafayette Theater in Harlem, between 1935 and 1939. They range from all-Black productions of Shaw and Shakespeare, and a jazz version of Gilbert and Sullivan, to original, socially conscious plays about the Haiti revolution,...

SOURCE: New York Theater at 11:15AM on February 10, 2021

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