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Say Brother; Another Approach to Theatre
Part of Say Brother.
03/09/1976
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Another Approach to Theatre
- Program Number
608
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program focuses on three different African American theater productions. Host Barbara Barrow introduces the topic of Black theater and stage works Raisin (the Tony-Award-winning musical for 1974), The Black Dyad (about Black male and female relationships) and "Theatre in Reverse," a Say Brother theater piece with an in-studio vocal performance by Al Jarreau with dance performances (with the intent of drawing the audience's attention to sound and light, rather than to the performers). Program contains excerpts from each production, and an in-studio discussion with writers/directors Evelyn and Melvin Moore about the excerpt "The Date" from The Black Dyad, which was the only segment of the three aired on the program.
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Black Dyad, The (Theatrical production)
- African American women
- Anderson, Nia
- African Americans in the performing arts
- African American singers
- Moore, Evelyn
- African American theater
- African American dance
- African American musicians
- Brown, Ann
- Raisin (Theatrical production)
- Welch, Robert
- Moore, Melvin
- Man-woman relationships
- Sloan, Danny
- Jarreau, Al
- Music--Performance
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Associate Producer)
- Marita Rivero (Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Contributors
- Hill, Rebecca (Make Up)
- Davis, Tony (Production Assistant)
- Correia, Dennis (Engineer)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Director Program Segment)
- Bundy, Kissette (Intern)
- LeCain, Larry (Cameraman)
- Allen, Lydia (Intern)
- Handyside, Keith (Engineer)
- Balhatchet, Tom (Engineer)
- MacKnight, John (Studio Technician)
- Sullivan, John L. (Studio Technician)
- Hutton, David (Videotape Engineer)
- Wareham, Skip (Studio Technician)
- Fairweather, Bill (Engineer)
- St. Onge, David (Videotape Engineer)
- Buccheri, Ron (Switcher)
- Shipley, Jack (Still Photography)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Lane, Frank (Cameraman)
- Wilson, Bob (Studio Technician)
- Kenner, Sharon (Graphic Designer)
- Spooner, Dighton (Researcher)
- Clarke, Brian (Intern)
- Simons, Fred (Videotape Engineer)
- Plausse, John (Lighting Director)
- Kane, Pat (Videotape Engineer)
- MacDonald, Greg (Cameraman)
- Norton, Chas (Lighting Director)
- Crane, David (Videotape Engineer)
- Cogell, Lloyd (Still Photography)
- Cross, June (Production Assistant)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Another Approach to Theatre,” 03/09/1976, GBH Archives, accessed April 25, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C9ED97ECBF1145779D229AFB94DB08A0.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Another Approach to Theatre.” 03/09/1976. GBH Archives. Web. April 25, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C9ED97ECBF1145779D229AFB94DB08A0>.
- APA: Say Brother; Another Approach to Theatre. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_C9ED97ECBF1145779D229AFB94DB08A0