Research Catalog

Title

Alice Childress audio and moving image collection.

Author

Childress, Alice

Publication

[1997]

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Atkins, Cholly.
• Taylor, Clarice, 1927-2011.
• Woodard, Nathan.
• American Negro Theatre.
• PEN (Organization)

Description

• 5 audiocassettes
• 1 videocassette

Summary

The collection consists of five audio recordings and one moving image recording documenting performances and research dating from 1959-1991.

Subjects

• American drama > African American authors
• Women in the theater > United States
• American drama > 20th century
• Dramatists, American > 20th century
• African American dramatists
• African American authors
• African American theater
• African American actresses
• African Americans in the performing arts

Genre/Form

• Sound recordings.
• Video recordings.

Biography (note)

• Pioneering African-American writer, actress, and director Alice Childress (1916-1994) was known for her plays and her best-selling young adult novel, A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich. Her career began in 1944 with the American Negro Theatre's production of Anna Lucasta. Childress began writing plays in the late 1940s, becoming the first Black woman to have a play produced in the United States, and the first Black woman to receive an OBIE for Best Off-Broadway Play.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Alice Childress archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997. (Sc MG 649)

Call Number

Sc MIRS Childress 1998-56

OCLC

1191031284

Author

Childress, Alice, creator.

Title

Alice Childress audio and moving image collection.

Publisher

[1997]

Biography

Pioneering African-American writer, actress, and director Alice Childress (1916-1994) was known for her plays and her best-selling young adult novel, A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich. Her career began in 1944 with the American Negro Theatre's production of Anna Lucasta. Childress began writing plays in the late 1940s, becoming the first Black woman to have a play produced in the United States, and the first Black woman to receive an OBIE for Best Off-Broadway Play.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Alice Childress archive. Papers can be found in the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division: Alice Childress papers, 1937-1997. (Sc MG 649)

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Added Author

Atkins, Cholly.

Taylor, Clarice, 1927-2011.

Woodard, Nathan.

American Negro Theatre.

PEN (Organization)

Research Call Number

Sc MIRS Childress 1998-56