From acquiescence to outrage in Roundabout's Broadway premiere of 'Trouble in Mind' at American Airlines Theatre
After its acclaimed Off-Broadway opening in 1955, Alice Childress's Obie-winning play Trouble in Mind was scheduled to transfer to Broadway in 1957, with the stipulation of the show's white producers that she make some changes in the script to soften the theme of racism in the theater. She refused, and the production was cancelled " […]