Renowned playwright asks: Who profits from 'social decay'? Playwright, filmmaker and author David Mamet explains how his latest book 'The Disenlightenment: Politics, Horror, and Entertainment ...

Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage ...

Ruby Dee (October 27, 1922 - June 11, 2014) was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, and civil rights activist. She originated the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage ...

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Playwright and Librettist Bridgette Wimberly Passes Away at 68 Wimberley is best known for her play Saint Lucy's Eyes, which starred Ruby Dee at the Women's Project Theatre in 2001.

Ruby Dee has navigated the challenging dynamics of the creative arts industry with such grace and poise and will always be remembered for her fine works. She was an actress, playwright, poet and ...

The playwright Alice Childress, who lived from 1916 to 1994, never saw her work produced on Broadway. Unlike some of her Black contemporaries—Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson—she wasn’t ...

In the first lines of the 1969 production of To Be Young, Gifted and Black, actress Ruby Dee takes the role of playwright Lorraine Hansberry and introduces herself: “My name is Lorraine ...

Many may know Lorraine Hansberry as the award-winning playwright of the now-classic 1959 Broadway play A Raisin in The Sun, adapted into a 1961 movie starring Sidney Poitier and Ruby Dee in 1961, and ...

Legendary actress, poet and playwright Ruby Dee passed away in her New Rochelle, New York home yesterday. She was 91. According to the New York Daily News, Dee was surrounded by family when she ...