Dutchman is an emotionally charged and highly symbolic version of the Adam and Eve story, set on a subway car, was the first critical success for playwright/activist LeRoi Jones, aka Amiri Baraka. The ...

I’ll give Andre Gaines’ new, weird adaptation of “The Dutchman” this much: the first big movie of any given year is usually a horror film, but it’s rarely a supernatural riff on a classic, ...

In The Dutchman, Andre Gaines retrofits Amiri Baraka’s caustic play about a fatal encounter between a reserved Black man and a roguish white woman for the modern age. He intensifies the dramatic ...

Trap Door Theatre will open another Trap Open Series presentation next week, Dutchman, written by Amiri Baraka and directed by Keith Surney. Dutchman will play October 9th – 25th, 2025 at Trap Door ...

Amiri Baraka, the militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a provocative and groundbreaking force in American culture, has died ...

From L: Ali Foley, Keith Surney, Genevieve Corkery, and Carolyn Benjamin in Dutchman at Trap Door Theatre Credit: Chris Popio Written when Amiri Baraka was still going by LeRoi Jones, 1964’s Dutchman ...

Lula, a young white woman, encounters Clay, a Black man, on the subway. Each has pre-conceptions about The Other. Both are in for a big surprise. Lula, a young white woman, encounters Clay, a Black ...

His booking agent, Celeste Bateman, told The Associated Press that Baraka, who had been hospitalized since last month, died Thursday at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. Perhaps no writer of the ...