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African-American Women Playwrights Front and Center by Elyse Sommer

 In 1957 African-American playwright  Alice Childress's   play Trouble in Mind, a was slated  for Broadway.  But the producers wanted her  to  make  the play  more palatable  to  a  Great White Way audience.  Childress refused to  tone down the script  and so  it never  made it to Broadway. the Great White Way because  she …

SOURCE: Curtainup Blog Annex at 02:50PM on September 21, 2011

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