Dutchman - Amiri Baraka

New York Times: "HISTORY seemed summoned to one of its spotlight moments on March 24, 1964, when Amiri Baraka’s “Dutchman” had its premiere at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York. He was little known outside the studied bohemian precincts of the Greenwich Village poetry scene; but this short, brutal play about the fatal confrontation between a black man and a white woman on a subway made him famous, respected and despised. Edward Albee was among the three producers. It won an Obie. He was called “King of the East Village” by The New York Herald Tribune Sunday magazine. At the time, though, he hadn’t yet changed his name to Amiri Baraka from LeRoi Jones."