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- Taking the Stage Gallery
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- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Taking the Stage
- Published by
- Playbill, American, founded 1884
- Edited by
- Samuelson, Judy
- Subject of
- Parks, Suzan-Lori, American, born 1963
- Wolfe, George Costello, American, born 1954
- Mos Def, American, born 1973
- Wright, Jeffrey, American, born 1965
- Ambassador Theatre, American, founded 1928
- Date
- March 2002
- Medium
- ink on paper with metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (Closed): 8 7/16 × 5 3/8 × 1/16 in. (21.5 × 13.6 × 0.2 cm)
- H x W x D (Open): 8 7/16 × 10 1/2 × 11/16 in. (21.5 × 26.7 × 1.8 cm)
- Description
- Playbill, volume 118, number 3, featuring the play, "Topdog/Underdog," written by Suzan-Lori Parks, directed by George C. Wolfe, starring Mos Def and Jeffrey Wright, and performed at the Ambassador Theatre, New York, 2002. 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 [AMBASSADOR THEATRE]. Below the masthead is a white field outlined in black, with a black-and-white illustration depicting a frontal view of a bulldog’s head above the same image upside-down. Dividing the two illustrations is the title of the play, which is also the main coverline, is written in two black-outlined boxes in black-and-white text, [TOP DOG / UNDERDOG]. The word “Underdog” is written upside-down. The playbill website is printed at the bottom of the front cover. The back cover features an ad for Target Stores. 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 fifty (50) pages.
- Transcription Center Status
- Transcription Available
- Place used
- New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Memorabilia and Ephemera
- Type
- theater programs
- Topic
- Actors
- Broadway Theatre
- Families
- Poverty
- Race discrimination
- Theatre companies
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kathleen M. Kendrick
- Object number
- 2015.64.13
- Restrictions & Rights
- Playbill used by permission. All rights reserved, Playbill Inc
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.