The Death of Bessie Smith is a one-act play by American playwright Edward Albee, written in 1959 and premiered in West Berlin the following year. The play consists of a series of conversations between Bernie and his friend Jack, Jack and an off-stage Bessie, and black and white staff of a whites-only hospital in Memphis, Tennessee on the death date of the famous blues singer, Bessie Smith, who died in a car wreck.
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BessieSmith (April 15, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was an African-American blues singer widely renowned during the Jazz Age. Nicknamed the "Empress of...
purchased the building in February 2013. On January 9, 2014, the group produced its first full production, Edward Albee's TheDeathofBessieSmith in Interfaith...
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be tried only for the murder ofBessie Mundy, the prosecution used thedeathsofthe other two to establish the pattern ofSmith's crimes; this was allowed...
stage role was in TheDeathofBessieSmith. One of his earliest television roles was a cameo appearance on The Dick Van Dyke Show in the 1963 episode "That's...
His next, TheDeathofBessieSmith, similarly premiered in Berlin before arriving in New York. Albee's most iconic play, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf...
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Through the influence of Richardson, he directed Albee's The American Dream and TheDeathofBessieSmith at London's Royal Court Theatre. Yates' first feature...
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lifetime as Bessie Blount, was a mistress of Henry VIII of England. Blount was the daughter of Sir John Blount and Catherine Peshall, of Kinlet, Bridgnorth...
"The DeathofBessieSmith" (pictured right). According to critic Graham Lock, this semi-abstract style was a fitting choice for the series because the blues...
performed Lawson, a one-man show based on the life of Australian poet Henry Lawson. Cullen had a role in the 2009 film X-Men Origins: Wolverine, alongside...
Bessie Coleman (January 26, 1892 – April 30, 1926) was an early American civil aviator. She was the first African-American woman and first self-identified...
three ofthe blues", along with Ma Rainey and BessieSmith. Many of Bogan's songs have been recorded by later blues and jazz musicians. Many of her songs...
sweeter voice than many of her contemporaries. Clara Smith was not related to the singers BessieSmith and Mamie Smith. Clara Smith was born to parents Selena...
hospitals following thedeathof her first child, a boy. She was in the huge mental hospital in Pietermaritzburg when she gave birth to Bessie. Although she...
Festival: the Respectful Prostitute (1964); ITV Play ofthe Week – TheDeathofBessieSmith (1965); Theatre 625: The Minister (1965); The Great Kandinsky...
Duchess of Windsor (born Bessie Wallis Warfield, later Spencer and then Simpson; June 19, 1896 – April 24, 1986) was an American socialite and wife of former...
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