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[Interview with André De Shields]
- Title
- [Interview with André De Shields] [videorecording] / [Video prod. company, Character Generators, Inc.] ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Publication
- New York, c1997.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 videocassettes (114 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 3/4 in. (U-matic)
- Alternative Title
- André De Shields interviewed by Murray Horwitz
- Subjects
- African American theater
- Actors' Equity Association
- MacDermot, Galt > Hair
- African American theater > New York (State) > New York
- Actors > Interviews
- Experimental theater > New York (State) > New York
- La Mama Experimental Theatre Club
- Dancers > Interviews
- Agitprop theater > United States
- Waller, Fats, 1904-1943 > Ain't misbehavin'
- Multiculturalism
- African American actors > Interviews
- Smalls, Charlie > Wiz
- De Shields, André, 1946- > Interviews
- Black theater > United States
- Musical theater > United States
- Interviews
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Performer (note)
- Interviewed by Murray Horwitz.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., July 7, 1997.
- Funding (note)
- Recorded with the financial assistance of American Theatre Wing, Inc.
- Call Number
- NCOW 197
- Title
- [Interview with André De Shields] [videorecording] / [Video prod. company, Character Generators, Inc.] ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Betty L. Corwin, director.
- Imprint
- New York, c1997.
- Performer
- Interviewed by Murray Horwitz.
- Event
- Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., July 7, 1997.
- Summary
- Actor/dancer André De Shields discusses his career in the theatre with interviewer Murray Horwitz, examining such shows as Hair, The wiz, and Ain't misbehavin'. He also discusses multiculturalism in the theater, black agitprop theater, his decades of work at La Mama ETC, his chairmanship of the Actors' Equity Association's Committee for Racial Equality, and his cabaret work.
- Funding
- Recorded with the financial assistance of American Theatre Wing, Inc.
- Added Author
- De Shields, André, 1946- interviewee.Horwitz, Murray, interviewer.Corwin, Betty L.Character Generators/Video.American Theatre Wing.New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
- Added Title
- Title on tape: André De Shields interviewed by Murray Horwitz
- Research Call Number
- NCOW 197