Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Furman, Roger, 1924-1983.

Description

1. 1.6 linear feet (4 archival boxes)

Summary

1. 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.

Subject

1. Theater programs
2. Dramatists, American > 20th century
3. African Americans in the performing arts
4. African American theater > New York (State) > New York
5. Plays
6. Black author
7. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life
8. American drama > 20th century
9. African American authors
10. Theater > Production and direction > New York (State) > New York
11. African American actors
12. African American dramatists
13. Furman, Roger, 1924-1983
14. Rivers, Voza
15. Theatrical companies > New York (State) > New York
16. Scripts
17. New Heritage Theatre Group (New York, N.Y.)

Genre/Form

1. Scripts.
2. Theater programs.
3. Plays.

Call number

1. Sc MG 912

Note

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

Source (note)

1. Voza Rivers

Location of other archival materials (note)

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

Biography (note)

1. 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.
2. 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.

Author

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

Title

1. New Heritage Theatre Group records, 1940s-2015

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. sheet
2. volume

Biography

1. 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.
2. 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

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

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Furman, Roger, 1924-1983.

Research call number

1. Sc MG 912