Garland Anderson

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Garland Anderson

American playwright

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Black theater
Garland Anderson’s play Appearances (1925) was the first play of African American authorship to be produced on Broadway, but Black theater did not create a Broadway hit until Langston Hughes’s Mulatto (1935) won wide acclaim. In that same year the Federal Theatre Project was founded,
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Garland Anderson’s play Appearances (1925) was the first play of African American authorship to be produced on Broadway, but Black theater did not create a Broadway hit until Langston Hughes’s Mulatto (1935) won wide acclaim. In that same year the Federal Theatre Project was founded,
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