Kathleen I. Kouril

Making Black American Films

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F or Black artists the American Dream has always presented a complicated dilemma: should one aim to be an artist,

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E lizabeth Einaudi, 1983 class marshall and Leverett House senior, says the best thing about her Harvard experience has been

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S OMEWHERE BACK in the dark recesses of Americana, in the tradition of Cotton Mather, Huckleberry Finn and Norman Rockwell,

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T here comes a moment in life, perhaps more than one, when it is possible to detect a subtle understanding,

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N O ONE EVER said staging a play by Bertolt Brecht would be anything but demanding. Perhaps it's the lure

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M ARGARET HECKLER'S recent turnaround on the "Squeal Rule" attracted a lot of attention. As a Republican Congresswoman from Massachusetts,

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ELAINE KOURY KNOWS a lot about theater fundraising and promotion. She could show the American Repertory Theater's Robert Brustein a

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THE film opens to the familiar beat of new wave pop and the sight (Yawn) of black vinyl spinning on