From the time she wrote her first play in 1949, Alice Childress, was devoted to having her characters speak their truth. A prolific playwright, actress and novelist she wrote stories of Black women ...

Alice Childress’ “Trouble In Mind” is the best new play I’ve seen in ages. Yes, I’m aware it was first done in 1955, but the play is only belatedly receiving its due. American theater is at long last ...

Concord Theatricals has announced that it has secured exclusive worldwide English language stage licensing rights to Alice Childress' Trouble in Mind for its Samuel French imprint. For more ...

THE PLAYERS, THE PLAY, AND THE PRODUCTION: Alice Childress wrote Wedding Band: A Love/Hate Story in Black and Whitein 1962 and, because interracial love was still such an inflammatory subject at the ...

Her “Trouble in Mind” was big news last season. Her “Wedding Band” is even bigger news this theater season. Eleven years separate the plays by the late Alice Childress; and, in between the two, she ...

Classic Stage Company is presenting Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress (Trouble in Mind) directed by Tony Award winner LaChanze (Trouble in Mind) in her New York directorial debut. Read the ...

On Dec. 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of a city bus in Montgomery, Ala. — an act that lit the fuse for the civil rights era to come. But the match had already been struck a month ...

Many years ago, I spoke to Ossie Davis about when he understudied for Sidney Poitier on stage in “A Raisin in the Sun,” and, later, took over the role of Walter Younger. Lorraine Hansberry’s play is ...

Fame, at least lasting fame — the your-work-goes-down-in-history kind, often accompanied by fat royalty payments — is a club that thinks of itself as an unbiased meritocracy, blind to everything but ...

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Sixty-four years late and right on time, Alice Childress’ wise and stirring backstage comedy-drama Trouble in Mind is making its long-in-coming Broadway debut tonight, and to describe the play as ...

Alice Childress’ “Trouble In Mind” is the best new play I’ve seen in ages. Yes, I’m aware it was first done in 1955, but the play is only belatedly receiving its due. American theater is at long last ...