Broadway1974
Black Picture Show
- Dates
- Jan 6 – Feb 9, 1975
- Performances
- 41
About
Black Picture Show is a play written by Bill Gunn at the height of the Black Arts Movement, in 1975. Clive Barnes of The New York Times described it as having "brilliant writing". The play deals with the conversations between an aging, mentally ill Black screenwriter, playwright, and poet and his son, also an artist. It was also published as a book.