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2423:Circle in the Square Theatre
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1251:Set design: Edward Burbridge
1071:Manhattan Theatre Club Award
1064:Song of the Lusitanian Bogey
869:Vernon Rice Drama Desk Award
855:1981 – Sustained Achievement
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1750:"Reading Between Races"
1254:Costuming: Gertha Brock
1170:Judyann (Jonsson) Elder
955:Clarence Derwent Awards
540:by Nigerian playwright
2840:Freestyle Love Supreme
2702:Robert Russell Bennett
2487:/ Hobe Morrison (1980)
2277:Negro Ensemble Company
2233:APA-Phoenix Theatre /
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903:Dramatists Guild Award
296:, and theater manager
278:Negro Ensemble Company
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2760:John Cameron Mitchell
2527:La Tragedie de Carmen
2505:Warner Communications
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2135:La Plume de Ma Tante
2083:The Threepenny Opera
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888:Sty of the Blind Pig
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444:St. Mark's Playhouse
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2750:/ Paul Libin (2013)
2323:Fiddler on the Roof
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2094:Jean-Louis Barrault
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1795:The New York Times
1737:The New York Times
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1579:Barbara Montgomery
1434:Laurence Fishburne
1424:Giancarlo Esposito
1233:Michael A. Schultz
1205:Horacena J. Taylor
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2174:Franco Zeffirelli
2160:The Theatre Guild
2036:Ruth Green (1951)
1999:Robert W. Dowling
1978:Vincent Sardi Sr.
1850:, Sept. 14, 1987.
1789:Neil Genzlinger,
1687:Samm-Art Williams
1672:Denzel Washington
1644:Richard Roundtree
1609:James Pickens Jr.
1524:Samuel L. Jackson
1469:Louis Gossett Jr.
1364:Godfrey Cambridge
1354:L. Scott Caldwell
1339:Roscoe Lee Browne
1265:Kristin Linklater
1057:Premio Roma Award
998:Margo Jones Award
817:The Great McDaddy
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685:James Pickens Jr.
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