50 years ago, playwright Amiri Baraka (then LeRoi Jones) captured the essence of the black/white relations of the time with “Dutchman”, performed at the Cherry Lane Theatre. The play, which won an Obie Award and was turned into a film only three years later, eloquently asked the question:Â ”In order to express myself in any endeavor, am I actually suppressing who I am?” In celebration of the…
SOURCE: stagebuddy.com at 02:43PM on May 2, 2014