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Bert Andrews (1931 - 1993) was the preeminent photograher of African American theater in New York as the house photographer for The Negro Ensemble Company. Born on Chicago, he grew up in Harlem where he was a songwriter, dancer and singer before studying photography, becoming an apprentice to jazz photographer Chuck Stewart. Andrews eventually made more than 40,000 negatives capturing the early stage careers of such performers as Morgan Freeman, Denzel Wahsington, Gloria Foster, Alfre Woodard, Alvin Aliey, Samuel L Jackson and hundreds more, spanning a thirty-five year history. His photographs appeared in numerous publications, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times. Many of the images in this collection became the Playbill program cover illustration for the production, making them the iconic image for that play.

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A Soldier's Play, 1981
Brent Jennings, Steven A. Jones, Eugene Lee, Denzel Washington, Samuel L. Jackson, James Pickens, Jr., Peter Friedman		 For Colored Girls ... 1978
Gloria Calomee, Marilyn Johnson, Alfre Woodward, Lynn Whitfield		 Coriolanus. 1979
Gloria Foster, Morgan Freeman
The Blacks, 1961
Marlene Warfield, Billy Dee Williams, Louise Stubbs		 The Blacks, 1961
Michelle Nichols, Lincoln Kilpatrick Helen Martin, Louis Gossett, Jr.
Ethel Ayler, Clebert Ford		 Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, 1968
Jerry Bell, Glynn Thurman,
Rosalind Cash, Godfrey Cambridge
Carry Me Back to Morningside Heights
David Steinberg, Cicely Tyson, Louis Gossett, Jr., Diane Ladd, Johnny Brown, Sidney Poitier		 The Square Root of Soul, 1973
Adolph Caesar		 Trumpets of the Lord, 1963
Cicely Tyson
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LINKS

Internet Broadway Database
Bert Andrews Broadway productions
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