Description: Rare! Black Theatre Magazine Premiere Issue Vol. 1 # 1 Harlem, NY 1969. Black theater a periodical of the black theater movement, is published by the new Lafayette theater in New York and copyright from 1969 to 1972. The new Lafayette Theatre published six editions of the periodical Black Theatre. The journal documents the diversity of ideas and opinions amongst the visionaries who led the Black Arts Movements. Actor – director Robert Macbeth founded the New Lafayette Theatre (NLT) in Harlem in 1967. He took the name from the original Harlem Lafayette Theatre (1912-1951), often remembered for Orson Welles’s WPA production of Voodoo Macbeth (1936), which featured an all-black cast. Robert Macbeth initially located his NLT on the former site of the Lafayette Theatre. The NLT’s objective was to produce theatre by black people, for black people, to reflect the black experience and vernacular of Harlem’s community. The theatre became a significant part the Black Arts Movement, a central element of Black Power. Ed Bullins, the theatre’s playwright-in-residence, had been the Minister of Culture for the Black Panthers and the plays produced by the company were considered politically and artistically radical. Good - condition Softcover, staple-bound journal; 32 pages; good condition; tears to covers around spine edge; covers detached; pages toned; no internal marks, browning and fragile to the pages due to poor quality of paper. Shipping with USPS Priority Mail.
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