Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, the Glossary
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men is an American two-act play by Lonne Elder III that premiered Off Broadway in 1969 at St. Mark's Playhouse in a production by the Negro Ensemble Company.[1]
Table of Contents
45 relations: African Americans, Arnold Johnson (actor), Arthur French (actor), Billy Dee Williams, Brandon J. Dirden, Capitalism, Carl Lee (actor), Charlie Robinson (actor), David Downing (actor), Denise Nicholas, Denzel Washington, Douglas Turner Ward, Drama, Edith Oliver, Edmund Cambridge, Eugene Lee (actor), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Glynn Turman, Graham Brown (actor), Joan Pringle, Judyann Elder, Keith David, Kenny Leon, L.A. Theatre Works, Laurence Fishburne, Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, Lonne Elder III, Los Angeles Times, Naturalism (theatre), Negro Ensemble Company, Off-Broadway, Play (theatre), Pulitzer Prize, Richard Ward (actor), Robert Hooks, Rocky Carroll, Rosalind Cash, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, St. Mark's Playhouse, Stephanie E. Williams, Taurean Blacque, Teddy Wilson, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Village Voice.
- 1969 plays
- Plays set in Harlem
African Americans
African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
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Arnold Johnson (actor)
Arnold Herbert Johnson (November 15, 1921 – April 10, 2000) was an American actor who played the lead role in the film Putney Swope (1969).
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Arthur French (actor)
Arthur Wellesley French Jr. (November 6, 1931 – July 24, 2021) was an American actor and director, best known for his work in the theatre.
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Billy Dee Williams
William December Williams Jr. (born April 6, 1937) is an American actor, novelist and painter.
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Brandon J. Dirden
Brandon J. Dirden (born) is an American actor, best known for portraying Martin Luther King Jr. in the Broadway production of Robert Schenkkan's All the Way.
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Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit.
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Carl Lee (actor)
Carl Lee (born Carl Vincent Canegata; November 22, 1926 – April 17, 1986) was an American actor.
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Charlie Robinson (actor)
Charles P. Robinson (November 9, 1945 – July 11, 2021) was an American stage, film and television actor.
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David Downing (actor)
David Downing was an American stage, film, and television actor.
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Denise Nicholas
Denise Donna Nicholas (born July 12, 1944) is an American actress.
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Denzel Washington
Denzel Hayes Washington Jr. (born December 28, 1954) is an American actor, producer, and director.
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Douglas Turner Ward
Douglas Turner Ward (May 5, 1930February 20, 2021) was an American playwright, actor, director, and theatrical producer.
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Drama
Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance: a play, opera, mime, ballet, etc., performed in a theatre, or on radio or television.
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Edith Oliver
Edith Oliver (August 9, 1913 – February 23, 1998) was an American theater and film critic who contributed to The New Yorker magazine from 1947 to 1993.
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Edmund Cambridge
Edmund James Cambridge Jr. (September 18, 1920 – August 18, 2001) was an American actor and director who was a founding member of the Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) and the Kilpatrick-Cambridge Theater Arts School.
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Eugene Lee (actor)
Eugene Lee (born July 16, 1953) is an American actor and playwright.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) is an American book publishing company, founded in 1946 by Roger Williams Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar.
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Glynn Turman
Glynn Turman (born January 31, 1947) is an American actor, director, writer, and producer.
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Graham Brown (actor)
Graham Brown (October 24, 1924 – December 13, 2011) was an American actor known for his work in theatre.
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Joan Pringle
Joan Pringle (born June 2, 1945) is an American actress known for her role as vice principal (and subsequently principal) Sybil Buchanan in the CBS drama series, The White Shadow (1978–1981), for which she received NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Drama Series.
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Judyann Elder
Judyann Elder is an American actress, director, and writer.
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Keith David
Keith David Williams (born June 4, 1956) is an American actor.
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Kenny Leon
Kenny Leon is an American director and producer.
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L.A. Theatre Works
L.A. Theatre Works (LATW) is a not-for-profit American media arts organization based in Los Angeles founded in 1984.
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Laurence Fishburne
Laurence John Fishburne III (born July 30, 1961, usually credited as Larry Fishburne until 1993) is an American actor.
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Lawrence Hilton Jacobs
Lawrence Hilton Jacobs, also credited as Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs (born September 4, 1953), is an American actor and singer.
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Lonne Elder III
Lonne Elder III (December 26, 1927 – June 11, 1996) was an American actor, playwright and screenwriter.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.
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Naturalism (theatre)
Naturalism is a movement in European drama and theatre that developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Negro Ensemble Company
The Negro Ensemble Company (NEC) is a New York City-based theater company and workshop established in 1967 by playwright Douglas Turner Ward, producer-actor Robert Hooks, and theater manager Gerald S. Krone, with funding from the Ford Foundation.
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Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive.
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Play (theatre)
A play is a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than mere reading.
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Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prizes are two dozen annual awards given by Columbia University in New York for achievements in the United States in "journalism, arts and letters." They were established in 1917 by the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher.
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Richard Ward (actor)
Richard Ward (March 15, 1915 – July 1, 1979) was an American actor on the stage, television, and in films, from 1949 until his death.
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Robert Hooks
Robert Hooks (born Bobby Dean Hooks; April 18, 1937) is an American actor, producer, and activist.
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Rocky Carroll
Roscoe "Rocky" Carroll (born July 8, 1963) is an American actor and director.
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Rosalind Cash
Rosalind Cash (December 31, 1938October 31, 1995) was an American actress.
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Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Ruben Santiago-Hudson (born Ruben Santiago Jr., November 24, 1956) is an American actor, playwright, and director who has won national awards for his work in all three categories.
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St. Mark's Playhouse
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Stephanie E. Williams
Stephanie E. Williams (born February 4, 1959) is an American actress best known for her work on TV soap operas, first on CBS-TV's The Young and the Restless as Amy Lewis, a character she portrayed from January 1983 to March 1988, then on ABC-TV's General Hospital as Dr.
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Taurean Blacque
Taurean Blacque (born Herbert Middleton Jr.; May 10, 1940 – July 21, 2022) was an American television and stage actor, best known for his role as Detective Neal Washington on the series Hill Street Blues.
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Teddy Wilson
Theodore Shaw Wilson (November 24, 1912 – July 31, 1986) was an American jazz pianist.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine featuring journalism, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons, and poetry.
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The Village Voice
The Village Voice is an American news and culture publication based in Greenwich Village, New York City, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.
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See also
1969 plays
- A Teaspoon Every Four Hours
- Alikiona
- American Primitive
- Appalachian Autumn
- Boesman and Lena
- Breath (play)
- Bringing It All Back Home (play)
- Butterflies Are Free (play)
- Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
- Christie in Love
- Conduct Unbecoming (play)
- Dear Antoine: or, the Love That Failed
- Delusion of the Fury
- Dimboola (play)
- Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
- Dutch Uncle (play)
- Fireworks (play)
- In Celebration (play)
- In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel
- Landscape (play)
- Last of the Red Hot Lovers
- Mistero Buffo
- Mixed Doubles (play)
- Next (play)
- Night (sketch)
- No Place to Be Somebody
- Oh! Calcutta!
- Play It Again, Sam (play)
- Play Strindberg
- Sadbird
- Shadow Game (CBS Playhouse)
- She's Done It Again (play)
- Silence (1969 play)
- Spader, Madame!
- The Advertisement
- The Big Flame
- The Day Before Sunday
- The Experiment (CBS Playhouse)
- The Incomparable Max
- The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (play)
- The Love-Girl and the Innocent
- The National Health (play)
- The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail
- The Watering Place
- Turandot (Brecht)
- Une Tempête
- What the Butler Saw (play)
Plays set in Harlem
- Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
- Harlem: A Melodrama of Negro Life in Harlem
- Jaja's African Hair Braiding
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceremonies_in_Dark_Old_Men