Playbill for The Love Space Demands at the Crossroads Theatre Company: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A playbill for a production of The Love Space Demands by the Crossroads Theatre Company.

The playbill has a black cover with the play’s title printed in large, decorative hot pink text at the center. There is white text above the title reading [CROSSROADS THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS / Ntozake Shange’s] and below the title reading [WITH ORIGINAL MUSIC BY / William “Spaceman” Patterson / DIRECTED BY / Talvin Wilks]. The first interior page has a message from Crossroads’ artistic director Ricardo Khan. This is followed by listings of the play’s production crew, ensemble cast, and musicians, as well as a listing of the poems and musical numbers in the order they appear in each of two acts. There are several pages of articles and advertisements inside the program. The back cover features an advertisement for Panico’s Italian restaurant.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1992
• Distributed by: Crossroads Theatre Company, American, founded 1978
• Subject of: Ntozake Shange, American, 1948 - 2018
• Subject of: Spaceman Patterson, American, born 1954
• Subject of: Talvin Wilks
• Type: playbills
• Medium: ink on paper with staples
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 1/8 in. (21.6 × 14 × 0.3 cm)
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Composers (Musicians)
• Topic: Modern dance
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Poetry
• Topic: Sexuality
• Topic: Theatre
• Topic: Theatre companies
• Object number: 2016.131.2.2
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ntozake Shange
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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