CMU School of Drama


Monday, October 31, 2022

On Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival

AMERICAN THEATRE: Ben Vereen sat across from us one August morning at breakfast in the Winston-Salem Marriott, enthusing about his first visit to the National Black Theatre Festival in North Carolina; the previous he night he had been given the festival’s Sidney Poitier Award. “I was so touched,” he said. “When my buddy Stokes started reading the introduction, I thought he was talking about someone else.

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