Playbill for The Love Space Demands at the Crossroads Theatre Company
date: label: Date
content: 1992
name: label: Distributed by
content: Crossroads Theatre Company, American, founded 1978
label: Subject of
content: Ntozake Shange, American, 1948 - 2018
label: Subject of
content: Spaceman Patterson, American, born 1954
label: Subject of
content: Talvin Wilks
notes: label: Description
content: A playbill for a production of The Love Space Demands by the Crossroads Theatre Company.
label: Description
content: 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.
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Composers (Musicians)
label: Topic
content: Modern dance
label: Topic
content: Music
label: Topic
content: Poetry
label: Topic
content: Sexuality
label: Topic
content: Theatre
label: Topic
content: Theatre companies
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Memorabilia and Ephemera - Other
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Ntozake Shange
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2016.131.2.2
objectType: label: Type
content: playbills
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Unknown - Restrictions Possible
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper with staples
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 8 1/2 × 5 1/2 × 1/8 in. (21.6 × 14 × 0.3 cm)