The American Negro Theatre (ANT)
June 1, 2015 through June 1, 2016
Monday, Friday, Saturday, 10:00am – 6:00pm
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 10:00am – 8:00pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd
Harlem
Known to the locals as “The Harlem Library Little Theatre,” the ANT was founded in 1940 as a community space for thespians to work in productions that illustrated the diversity of black life. This exhibition is taken entirely from the Schomburg Collections and highlights the ANT’s stage productions from 1940 through 1949 with photographs, posters, playbills, and news clippings. Images include scenes from successful plays such as Anna Lucasta, studio workshops, and radio broadcasts featuring prominent talent like Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier and Lofton Mitchell, whose careers began at the ANT.