Syncopated Stages: Black Disruptions to the Great White Way
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, United StatesAlthough the common nickname for Broadway, “the Great White Way,” refers, historically, to its dazzling lights, the phrase also suggests the ways in which many histories of New York theater center white artists. Black artists, though, have been important shapers of musical theater in the United States before the electric light was ever used on […]