Playbill for the Negro Ensemble Company's A Soldier’s Play: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This is a show bill for the Negro Ensemble Company’s A Soldier’s Play. The front cover has a blue rectangle at the top of the page with black text that reads “SHOWBILL/ Theatre Four.” Below the blue rectangle is a larger black rectangle. In its center is a circle created by a white line around white text on a black background that reads “the/ Negro/ Ensemble/ Company.” There is a white border around both blue and black rectangles. There is a small tear on the right edge of the cover.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1981
• Published by: American Theatre Press, Inc., American
• Subject of: Negro Ensemble Company, American, founded 1967
• Subject of: Samuel L. Jackson, American, born 1948
• Subject of: Denzel Washington, American, born 1954
• Subject of: Adolph Caesar, American, 1933 - 1986
• Subject of: Douglas Turner Ward, born 1930
• Subject of: Brent Jennings, American, born 1951
• Subject of: Charles Brown, American, 1946 - 2004
• Type: programs
• Medium: ink on paper with metal
• Dimensions: H x W (open): 8 7/16 × 5 5/8 in. (21.5 × 14.3 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W (closed): 8 7/16 × 11 in. (21.5 × 28 cm)
• Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Actors
• Topic: Drama (Theatre)
• Topic: Television
• Object number: 2013.188.22
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of William and James Thomas and family in memory of Clarice Taylor
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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