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Mar/Wood Spring Productions
Mar/Wood Spring Productions
From the Fountainhead of Black Theatre
The New York Times described Charles Gordone…
“Charles Gordone pioneered a polemical form of race-conscious theater with blistering drama, which made him the first black playwright to win the Pulitzer Prize.”
Walter Kerr, of the NY Times, described Mr. Gordone,, as “the most astonishing new American playwright to come along since Edward Albee.”
Other awards include:
1969 - Drama Desk Award
1970 - Pulitzer Prize for Drama – No Place to Be Somebody
1971 - Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award
1971 - American Academy of Arts and Letters Award
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