Apollo

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The Apollo Theater in New York City is one of the most famous music halls in the United States, and the most famous club associated almost exclusively with African-American performers. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and was the home of Showtime at the Apollo, a nationally syndicated television variety show consisting of new talent.
The theater is located at 253 W. 125th Street in the New York City borough of Manhattan, specifically in Harlem, one of the United States' most historically significant traditionally black neighborhoods.





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Eclipsed

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copyright Carol Rosegg

The five actresses in “Eclipsed” appeared before the audience at the Yale Repertory Theatre Friday as Africans living in a rundown shack in Liberia, surrounded by guns, uncertainty and civil strife.






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Macbeth by Welles

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Orson Welles, just twenty-one years old at the time, began his theatrical career directing Shakespeare's Macbeth and Christopher Marlowe's Tragical History of Dr. Faustus for the Federal Theatre Project.
Welles' designs for the plays were characterized by the creative risk-taking that exemplified his dramatic work. His use of racially integrated casting and "alternative" settings for these masterpieces was an innovation.
For the former play, Welles cast African-American performers in all the roles, moved the play's setting from Scotland to the Caribbean, and changed the witches to Haitian witch doctors.




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