The Dramatist

DLDF: Dear Friends of Free Expression

From cuts in arts funding and art education, to proposed legislation by many states attempting to restrict political protest, to tweets attempting to undermine the legitimacy of the press, governmental hostility to free expression has not reached such a fevered pitch in recent memory. One step we urge you to take right now to fight...
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Unknown Legacies: Black Playwrights in America

The DG and the DLDF proudly welcomed professors William Maxwell, Mary Helen Washington, and William J. Harris. This panel of esteemed scholars examined the nuanced legacies of playwrights Amiri Baraka and Alice Childress, and discussed the complicated reasons why those two writers are not part of the theatrical canon as we know it today.