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Interview with Lloyd Richards

Title
Interview with Lloyd Richards [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Publication
New York, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006
  • King, Woodie, Jr., 1937-
  • Epstein, Dasha
  • Hoffman, Patrick
  • Character Generators/Video
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
  • Jack and Mimi Amsterdam Foundation
Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (73 min.) : sd., col. SP; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Director Lloyd Richards discusses his career in theater and his various friends and collaborators, including Sidney Poitier, Lorraine Hansberry, and August Wilson, with interviewer Woodie King. The discussion extends from Richards' early days as an actor with the Equity Library Theatre through his switch to directing, his work with Hansberry on the ground-breaking play A raisin in the sun, and his later collaborations with playwright August Wilson. Richards also discusses his work with the Yale Repertory Theatre and his tenure as Dean of the Yale School of Drama, where he has taught for many years.
Subject
  • Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006 > Interviews
  • Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006 > Friends and associates
  • Poitier, Sidney > Friends and associates
  • Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965 > Friends and associates
  • Hansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965
  • Wilson, August > Friends and associates
  • Equity Library Theatre (New York, N.Y.)
  • Yale Repertory Theatre
  • Yale School of Drama
  • Theatrical producers and directors > Interviews
  • African American theater > New York (State) > New York
  • African American theater
  • African Americans in the performing arts
  • Black theater > United States
  • Theater > New York (State) > New York
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Access (note)
  • Restricted to qualified researchers.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 31, 2005.
Funding (note)
  • Recorded with the financial assistance of Dasha Epstein and The Jack and Mimi Amsterdam Foundation.
Call Number
NCOW 279
OCLC
NYPG05-F10169
Title
Interview with Lloyd Richards [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Imprint
New York, c2005.
Access
Restricted to qualified researchers.
Performer
Interviewed by Woodie King, Jr.
Event
Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., March 31, 2005.
Funding
Recorded with the financial assistance of Dasha Epstein and The Jack and Mimi Amsterdam Foundation.
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Added Author
Richards, Lloyd, 1919-2006, interviewee.
King, Woodie, Jr., 1937- interviewer.
Epstein, Dasha.
Hoffman, Patrick.
Character Generators/Video.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Jack and Mimi Amsterdam Foundation.
Research Call Number
NCOW 279
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