Research Catalog

Title

New Heritage Theatre Group records, 1940s-2015

Author

New Heritage Theatre Group (New York, N.Y.)

Supplementary Content

Finding aid

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Furman, Roger, 1924-1983.

Description

1.6 linear feet (4 archival boxes)

Subjects

• Theater programs
• Dramatists, American > 20th century
• African Americans in the performing arts
• African American theater > New York (State) > New York
• Plays
• Black author
• Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life
• American drama > 20th century
• African American authors
• Theater > Production and direction > New York (State) > New York
• African American actors
• African American dramatists
• Furman, Roger, 1924-1983
• Rivers, Voza
• Theatrical companies > New York (State) > New York
• Scripts
• New Heritage Theatre Group (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

• Plays.
• Scripts.
• Theater programs.

Note

• Photographs transferred to the Photographs and Prints Division.
• DVDs and CDs transferred to the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Source (note)

• Voza Rivers

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• American Negro Theatre records; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

Biography (note)

• Under the leadership of Roger Furman, the New Heritage Repertory Theatre (NHRT) was established in 1964. Furman, a playwright, director, actor, and lecturer, began his career in the 1940s at the American Negro Theatre (ANT) in the 135th Street Branch Library. NHRT produced over 35 plays including "Strivers' Row," written by Abram Hill, co-founder of ANT.
• In 1983, Voza Rivers, a co-founding member of NHRT, music and theatre producer, took the helm and reorganized the organization and expanded the Theatre's scope and reach internationally. Currently, the newly named New Heritage Theatre Group is comprised of three program divisions: the Furman Theatre Repertory, a workshop for budding playwrights; the New Heritage Films and Harlem Wood Film Festival; and IMPACT Repertory Theatre, established by Jamal Joseph in 1997, focusing on youth performance and activism.

Call Number

Sc MG 912

Author

New Heritage Theatre Group (New York, N.Y.)

Title

New Heritage Theatre Group records, 1940s-2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

volume

Summary

The New Heritage Theatre Group records consists of playbills, broadsides, flyers, playscripts, correspondence, and printed matter relating to the organization's productions and events from 1965-2015. Of particular note are original playscripts and production materials for the South African musical "Sarafina!" (1988-1991) and flyers and announcements for a play reading series entitled "Voices of Griots" (1991-1996). There is also a biographical file for Roger Furman.

Biography

Under the leadership of Roger Furman, the New Heritage Repertory Theatre (NHRT) was established in 1964. Furman, a playwright, director, actor, and lecturer, began his career in the 1940s at the American Negro Theatre (ANT) in the 135th Street Branch Library. NHRT produced over 35 plays including "Strivers' Row," written by Abram Hill, co-founder of ANT.

In 1983, Voza Rivers, a co-founding member of NHRT, music and theatre producer, took the helm and reorganized the organization and expanded the Theatre's scope and reach internationally. Currently, the newly named New Heritage Theatre Group is comprised of three program divisions: the Furman Theatre Repertory, a workshop for budding playwrights; the New Heritage Films and Harlem Wood Film Festival; and IMPACT Repertory Theatre, established by Jamal Joseph in 1997, focusing on youth performance and activism.

Location of Other Archival Materials

American Negro Theatre records; Also located at; Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

Connect to:

Finding aid

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Furman, Roger, 1924-1983.

Research Call Number

Sc MG 912