Broadway producer to appear at WFU

By Rachel Cook
336.758.5237
March 27, 2003

A conversation with Broadway producer Philip Rose will be held April 1 at 11 a.m. in the Ring Theatre of the Scales Fine Arts Center at Wake Forest University. The event is free and open to the public.

The author of the recent book “You Can’t do that on Broadway: ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ and Other Theatrical Improbabilities,” Rose is a proponent of social justice and equal rights in the theatre. As a producer he seeks theatrical pieces that will both entertain and reveal to an audience their own complacent and indifferent views.

Rose made his Broadway producing debut in 1959 with Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” which went on to win the 1958-59 New York Drama Critics Award for Best Play of the Year. Since then he has received multiple Tony Award nominations among other accolades. This summer Rose will be honored with an award from The National Black Theatre Festival.

Copies of “You Can’t do that on Broadway” are available in Wake Forest’s College Bookstore.

The event is sponsored by the Wake Forest theatre department. For more information, call 336-758-5295.

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