Booklet Advertising the Negro Ensemble Company’s Production of Joseph A. Walker’s The River Niger
- Sixteen page booklet measuring 9 x 12 inches
- New York City: George Fenmore Associates, 1973
New York City: George Fenmore Associates, 1973. Sixteen page booklet measuring 9 x 12 inches. Some wrinkling, some marginal damage, overall excellent.. The Negro Ensemble Company was opened in 1967 by actor and playwright Douglas Turner Ward, actor and producer Robert Hooks, and producer Gerald Krone, with a grant from the Ford Foundation. It provided free theater training—both in acting and in behind-the-scenes work—to Black people in New York City, and put on plays relevant to the community. Notable alumni of the NEC include Angela Bassett, Samuel L. Jackson, and Giancarlo Esposito, among numerous others.
Offered here is a booklet about the NEC’s production of Joseph A. Walker’s The River Niger, which opened in 1972 in the small, off-off-Broadway St. Marks Playhouse theater. The play was so popular that it played for weeks longer than planned at St. Marks, and then opened on Broadway in 1973. Walker won a Tony for Best Play for The River Niger, the first African-American to do so. The booklet includes photographs of the play and an article about it from Ebony magazine, alongside photographs from the group’s many other productions. We find two copies of the booklet in OCLC, both at the University of California, Davis.
Offered here is a booklet about the NEC’s production of Joseph A. Walker’s The River Niger, which opened in 1972 in the small, off-off-Broadway St. Marks Playhouse theater. The play was so popular that it played for weeks longer than planned at St. Marks, and then opened on Broadway in 1973. Walker won a Tony for Best Play for The River Niger, the first African-American to do so. The booklet includes photographs of the play and an article about it from Ebony magazine, alongside photographs from the group’s many other productions. We find two copies of the booklet in OCLC, both at the University of California, Davis.