Playbill for Nothing But The Truth: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Playbill for Nothing But the Truth. White background with yellow box at top; red box below with graphic of a grey-haired man in a suit sitting in a wooden chair. [PLAYBILL/LINCOLN CENTER THEATER AT THE MITZI E. NEWHOUSE/NOTHING BUT THE/TRUTH/WWW.PLAYBILL.COM] White circular sticker on back, handwritten 2004.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2004
• Published by: Playbill, American, founded 1884
• Used by: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, American, founded 1962
• Subject of: Esmeralda Bihl, South African
• Subject of: John Kani, South African, born 1943
• Subject of: Warona Seane, South African
• Type: theater programs
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 8 1/2 x 5 3/8 in. (21.6 x 13.7 cm)
• Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Drama (Theatre)
• Object number: 2011.45.72
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Kayla Deigh Owens
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

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