Amiri Baraka's "Dutchman" is a tightly coiled theatrical panic attack centered on Clay, a Black man riding the New York City subway, and Lula, the white woman who singles him out. Lula attempts to ...

Dutchman is an emotionally charged and highly symbolic version of the Adam and Eve story, set on a subway car, was the first critical success for playwright/activist LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Excellence is afoot in Trenton. On the one hand, the Passage Theatre Company's production of Amiri Baraka's monumental pairing of ...

Playwright, poet and activist LeRoi Jones, whose play "Dutchman" is playing off-Broadway, is shown in New York City on June 30, 1964. Originally named Everett LeRoi Jones, he changed his name to Imamu ...

Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died ...

I'll give Andre Gaines' new, weird adaptation of "The Dutchman" this much: the first big movie of any given year is usually a horror film, but it's rarely a supernatural riff on a classic, ...