Tag Charles Gordone

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NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY at Waco Theater Center

Deborah Klugman – Stage Raw Charles Gordone’s smoldering drama aptly encapsulates the protest, violence and tumultuous change seen in America’s urban cities in the 1960s. The play debuted off-Broadway in 1969, garnering Gordone a Pulitzer in 1970, the first win…

LADCC Critics
March 7, 2019

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NO PLACE TO BE SOMEBODY at the Robey Theatre

Lovell Estell III – Stage Raw In the pantheon of African-American playwrights, the name Charles Gordone isn’t as well-known as others like Lorraine Hansberry or August Wilson. But he was the first black playwright to receive a Pulitzer Prize, and…

LADCC Critics
April 7, 2016

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