By Darlene Donloe It was 1967 when Robert Hooks, Douglas Turner Ward, and Gerald Krone sat down at the Orchidia restaurant in Manhattan's East Village and mapped out, on a tablecloth, what would become the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC). Initially launched because there were few and far between theatrical outlets for black artists during the turbulent 60s, the idea for NEC was to develop a theater company that was …
SOURCE: thisstage.la at 08:24PM on September 22, 2017