Playbill for Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

Published by

Playbill, American, founded 1884

Edited by

Samuelson, Judy

Subject of

Smith, Anna Deavere, American, born 1950

Wolfe, George Costello, American, born 1954

Cort Theatre, American, founded 1912

Date

April 1994

On View

Culture/Fourth Floor, 4 054

Exhibition

Taking the Stage

Medium

ink on paper with metal

Dimensions

H x W x D (Closed): 8 3/8 × 5 7/16 × 1/8 in. (21.2 × 13.8 × 0.3 cm)

H x W x D (Open): 8 3/8 × 10 11/16 × 3/4 in. (21.2 × 27.1 × 1.9 cm)

Description

Playbill, volume 94, number 4, featuring the play, "Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992," written by Anna Deavere Smith, directed by George C. Wolfe, and performed at the Cort Theatre, New York, in 1994. The top third of the cover is the masthead, a yellow rectangular field with black type with the magazine's title, [PLAYBILL®] above the text [CORT THEATRE]. Below the masthead is a white field outlined in black, with a black-and-white image depicting the silhouette of four (4) tall palm trees and a fire in the bottom left corner that is giving off a diagonal plume of smoke that darkens the top third of the image. Above the trees is a close-up of two eyes. The title of the play, which is also the main coverline, is written above and just below the top edge of the image in black and white text, [TWILIGHT: / LOS ANGELES, 1992]. The back cover features an ad for Carlton cigarettes. All of the pages are glossy and bound together with staples. Most of the interior pages are off-white with black type with black-and-white images and color images. The magazine has seventy (70) pages.

Place printed

New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Place used

Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America

Place depicted

Los Angeles, California, United States, North and Central America

Classification

Memorabilia and Ephemera

Type

theater programs

Topic

Broadway Theatre

Drama (Theatre)

Justice

Race relations

Resistance

U.S. History, 1969-2001

Urban life

Violence

Credit Line

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kathleen M. Kendrick

Object number

2015.64.12

Restrictions & Rights

Playbill used by permission. All rights reserved, Playbill Inc.

Usage

Usage conditions apply

GUID

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd57f7188d5-f979-4816-b77a-88a67a066e71