Black History Month Day 11 ~ Front of House

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Posted: 2/11/11 at 5:47pm

Personnel in Box Offices and other front offices changed little [throughout the middle of the 20th Century]. Even ushers of color did not appear until the 1980s. However, when George C. Wolfe became artistic director of the Joseph Papp Public Theater, people of color suddenly appeared in all technical and business capacities, extending a policy that Joseph Papp had begun.

Source: “A History of African American Theater,” Errol Hill and James Vernon Hatch (Cambridge University Press