Rites and Reason Theatre

Rites and Reason Theatre
Formation1970
TypeTheatre group
Location
Notable members
Websiteafricana.brown.edu/rites-and-reason-theatre

Rites and Reason Theatre is a theater within the Africana Studies department of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1970 by Professor George Houston Bass, and Professor Rhett Jones, is one of the longest-running continuously producing black theaters in the United States.[1] Writers for the theater have included Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Adrienne Kennedy.[2][3] The theatre serves to develop theatrical and visual performance works that articulate and understand the expansive African Diaspora.[4]

  1. ^ "About the Theatre | Africana Studies". www.brown.edu. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  2. ^ Hay, Samuel A. (1994). African American Theatre: a Historical and Critical Analysis. Cambridge University Press. pp. 60.
  3. ^ "Mapping Arts Project – Providence » Rites and Reason Theatre". mappingartsproject.org. Retrieved September 4, 2019.
  4. ^ "Rites and Reason Theatre | Africana Studies". www.brown.edu. Retrieved November 11, 2019.