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American Negro Theatre records
- Title
- American Negro Theatre records, 1940-1981, bulk(1940-1950).
- Author
- American Negro Theatre.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Box 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 70 Box 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- .4 lin. ft.
- Summary
- The records contain ANT's constitution and by-laws; correspondence by Frederick O'Neal, Abram Hill, Maxwell Glanville, Hilda Sims, Alice Childress, and Harry Wagstaff Gribble; assorted programs; minutes of the board of directors; financial records; articles; ANT's School of Drama; Planning, Administrative, Reorganization, Playreading and Audience Building Committees minutes and notes; and Theatre Renovations information.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Blacks on Stage: African-American Theater Arts Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Source (note)
- O'Neal, Frederick
- Biography (note)
- The American Negro Theatre (ANT) co-founded by Frederick O'Neal and Abram Hill, was established to provide black actors, playwrights, directors and other theatre-related professionals with opportunities to work in productions that illustrated the diversity of black life. ANT's program was essentially divided into three categories: stage productions, a training program and radio programs.
- Processing Action (note)
- Accessioned
- Surveyed
- Cataloging updated
- Processed.
- Cat. updated
- Call Number
- Sc MG 70
- OCLC
- NYPW89-A14
- Author
- American Negro Theatre.
- Title
- American Negro Theatre records, 1940-1981, bulk(1940-1950).
- Biography
- The American Negro Theatre (ANT) co-founded by Frederick O'Neal and Abram Hill, was established to provide black actors, playwrights, directors and other theatre-related professionals with opportunities to work in productions that illustrated the diversity of black life. ANT's program was essentially divided into three categories: stage productions, a training program and radio programs.From 1940-1949, nineteen plays, twelve of them original, were produced by ANT. "On Striver's Row," "Walk Hard--Talk Loud," (both written by Hill), and "Rain" were well-received plays. However, commercial success struck with Philip Yordan's "Anna Lucasta." ANT also exhibited the talents of several now well-known actors and actresses, some for the first time, including Ruby Dee, Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Alvin and Alice Childress, Hilda Simms, Earl Hyman, Isabel Sanford, Vinie Burroughs, Helen Martin, Roger Furman, Maxwell Glanville, Clarice Taylor, Gordon Heath and Hilda Hayes.For the first five years (1940-1945) ANT was housed in the basement of the 135th Street Branch Library of the New York Public Library, known as the "Harlem Library Little Theatre." In 1945, ANT moved to the Elks Lodge at 15 West 126th Street, which was renamed the American Negro Theatre Playhouse. In 1950, ANT made its final move to a loft on West 125th Street, and according to O'Neal, officially went out of business a year later.
- Finding Aids
- Finding aid available in repository.
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- Added Author
- O'Neal, Frederick, 1905-1992.Hill, Abram, 1911-1986.Simms, Hilda, 1918-1994.Glanville, Maxwell, 1918-1992.Childress, Alice.Gribble, Harry Wagstaff, 1896-1981.
- Research Call Number
- Sc MG 70