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"Speaking a Mutual Language": The Negro People's Theatre in Chicago
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 54, Number 3, Fall 2010 (T 207)
- pp. 54-70
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract
Putting black characters in their plays settled some formal debates for the Popular Front's new theatre, but it created entirely new questions about how the movement would involve actual African Americans. Fanny McConnell and Chicago's Negro People's Theatre (1938-1940) offered some answers.
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