Dutchman 1964

Opened: March 24, 1964

Dutchman - 1964 - Off-Broadway History , Info & More

Cherry Lane Theatre
38 Commerce St. (Bedford & Hudson Street) New York, NY 10014

This 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.

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Review: DUTCHMAN at Greenfinch Theatre And Dive Bar
by James Lindhorst - Feb 2, 2024


Soul Siren’s production of Dutchman is intentionally ostentatious in its presentation and is a dramatic success because of the dynamic and fantastic performances of Cameron Jamarr (Clay) and Eileen Engel (Lula.) Amiri Baraka’s One-Act play DUTCHMAN, directly challenges mid-century racism with a bold characterization of black and white Americans embodied by two characters.

Harlem Stage Announces 2022-23 Season Featuring BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT: EXAMINED & More
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 13, 2022


Harlem Stage has announced highlights of its 2022-2023 season, whose centerpiece is a seven-event series devoted to deepening and unpacking understandings of the Black Arts Movement, its intersections with the larger Black Power Movement, and its historic and cultural relevance in today’s America.

Review: Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones' DUTCHMAN Is a Powerful Punch in the Gut at American Stage
by Peter Nason - Jul 2, 2022


Led by a visionary, risk-taking director, Erica Sutherlin, this important work will rattle you to your core.

The Classics Theatre Project Announces 2022 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 8, 2022


The Classics Theatre Project, under the artistic direction of Joey Folsom, has curated a 2022 season of four dynamic productions fitting the company's mission to bring the classics to audiences in accessible and relevant ways.

Play-PerView Announces its Lineup For August - DUTCHMAN, THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY, and More!
by Stephi Wild - Jul 29, 2020


Play-PerView has announced its upcoming lineup for August, which includes a virtual performance of Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, reuniting Dulé Hill, Jennifer Mudge, and Chris Myers.

Timothy Ware to Headline The Seeing Place's DUTCHMAN
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Jul 15, 2020


While the live-performance season is on hold nationwide, The Seeing Place continues to produce great plays by distinguished playwrights. Up next is an online reading of DUTCHMAN, a one-act drama by Amiri Baraka (produced and published in 1964 under the playwright's original name LeRoi Jones).

The Resident Acting Company Announces Virtual Summer Events
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 11, 2020


The Resident Acting Company, formed two years ago by members of the Pearl Theater Company, announced today that they will present Play Dates With The RAC, three online Zoom Events.

BWW Exclusive: The 101 GREATEST PLAYS of the Past 100 Years (1920-2020)
by Peter Nason - Apr 7, 2020


BWW Reviewer Peter Nason chooses the greatest theatrical works (non-musical) from 1920-2020; see if your favorites made the list!

BWW Review: In the Hot Seat with DUTCHMAN at Monument Theatre Company
by The Marriage Matinee - Feb 17, 2020


DUTCHMAN by Amiri Baraka has an essence all its own that is complicated, lyrical, and timeless. This production by Monument Theatre Company pushes at the edges of comfort and makes you as an audience member not only pay attention but also become a part of what is happening on the stage.

DUTCHMAN By LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka to Be Revived At Access Theater
by Julie Musbach - Oct 15, 2019


Henry Lombino and Those Guilty Creatures are thrilled to announce a new production of DUTCHMAN by LeRoi Jones/Amiri Baraka will play at Access Theater (380 Broadway) for three performances on November 7, 8, and 9 at 8:00pm.

DUTCHMAN Tackles Racial Inequality This Black History Month at the Tristan Bates Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Sep 25, 2019


Drawing tense parallels between Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement, Amiri Baraka's Dutchman asks how much change, if any, has occurred? Dutchman challenges the progress of racial equality in the last 50 years, revealing contemporary race relations.

TCA Opens Season With DUTCHMAN
by Stephi Wild - Sep 24, 2019


Tempe Center for the Arts kicks off its 2019-20 TCA Presents season with the regional premiere of DUTCHMAN, an emotionally fraught and incendiary play, by LeRoi Jones / Amiri Baraka, Oct. 4a?"19, 2019.

Yale Rep Announces 2019-20 Season
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 29, 2019


YALE REPERTORY THEATRE the multiple Tony Award-winning theatre dedicated to the production of new plays and bold interpretations of classic works, has announced its 2019-20 Season.

Dr. Nicole Hodges Persley Appointed As Artistic Director For KC Melting Pot Theatre
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 26, 2019


Harvey Williams, Founder and Executive Director of KC Melting Pot Theatre (KCMPT) in Kansas City announced that Dr. Nicole Hodges Persley has been appointed as Artistic Director. After three years as Associate Artistic Director, Hodges Persley has helped to position KCMPT as a theater company to watch in the Kansas City regional theater landscape. Under her creative influence, the company has produced timely and thought-provoking shows such as the revivals of Angelina W. Grimke's 1916 anti-lynching play Rachel and Amiri Baraka's 1964 Obie award-winning play Dutchman as well as cutting edge new American voices such as Pulitzer Prize winner Dominique Morriseau and emerging playwright Lewis J. Morrow.  Hodges Persley draws season inspiration from an eclectic array of sources from historic social and arts movements to #Black Lives Matter and African American music genres.

Tickets Now On Sale For DUTCHMAN/STOP KISS Presented By Sacred Circle Theatre Company
by BWW News Desk - Jun 23, 2018


This past week, tickets went on sale for the double-bill of Dutchman by Amiri Baraka and Stop Kiss by Diana Son that Sacred Circle Theatre Company will be presenting in June at The Alchemical in Chelsea.

Tickets Now On Sale For DUTCHMAN/STOP KISS Presented By Sacred Circle Theatre Company
by BWW News Desk - Jun 20, 2018


This past week, tickets went on sale for the double-bill of Dutchman by Amiri Baraka and Stop Kiss by Diana Son that Sacred Circle Theatre Company will be presenting in June at The Alchemical in Chelsea.

Tickets Now On Sale For DUTCHMAN/STOP KISS Presented By Sacred Circle Theatre Company
by Stephi Wild - Jun 2, 2018


This past week, tickets went on sale for the double-bill of Dutchman by Amiri Baraka and Stop Kiss by Diana Son that Sacred Circle Theatre Company will be presenting in June at The Alchemical in Chelsea.

Sacred Circle Theatre Company to Produce DUTCHMAN by Amiri Baraka and STOP KISS by Diana Son as a Double-Bill in June
by Julie Musbach - Mar 19, 2018


Sacred Circle Theatre Company, the queer/feminist theatre company based in Bushwick, Brooklyn, announced its 2018 main-stage production: new stagings of Dutchman by Amiri Baraka and Stop Kiss by Diana Son presented in one evening as a double-bill.

Theatre of War's (FLYING) DUTCHMAN to Play The Tank
by Julie Musbach - Jan 8, 2018


The Tank (Meghan Finn and Rosalind Grush, Artistic Directors) will present Theatre of War's experimental reconstruction of Amiri Baraka's (Flying) Dutchman, directed by Christopher Stevenson at The Tank (312 West 36th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues) February 9-24. Performances will be Friday, February 9 at 7pm, Saturday, February 10 at 7pm, Thursday, February 15 at 7pm, Friday, February 16 at 7pm, Saturday, February 16 at 7pm, Wednesday, February 21 at 7pm, Thursday, February 22 at 7pm, Friday, February 23 at 7pm, and Saturday, February 24 at 7pm. Tickets ($25/$15 students & seniors) are available for advance purchase at www.thetanknyc.org. The performance will run approximately 45 minutes, with no intermission.

Jaap van Zweden To Lead New York Premiere By John Luther Adams
by A.A. Cristi - Jan 4, 2018


Music Director Designate Jaap van Zweden will conduct the New York Philharmonic in a program pairing the New York Premiere of Pulitzer Prize winner John Luther Adams's Dark Waves with Act I of Wagner's Die Walk re (in concert), with soprano Heidi Melton as Sieglinde, tenor Simon O'Neill as Siegmund (in his New York Philharmonic debut), and bass John Relyea as Hunding.

Mixed Magic Theatre Produces Controversial Award-Winning Masterpieces In Repertory
by BWW News Desk - Oct 20, 2017


Mixed Magic Theatre (MMT) is thrilled to open its season with Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and The Slave, two searing, timeless and timely dramas that will be performed in repertory in the company's two renovated performance spaces Nov 10 -26.

DUTCHMAN & THE SLAVE Set to Run in Repertory at Mixed Magic Theatre
by Robert Diamond - Oct 17, 2017


Mixed Magic Theatre (MMT) is thrilled to open its season with Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and The Slave, two searing, timeless and timely dramas that will be performed in repertory in the company's two renovated performance spaces Nov 10 -26.

The Tank Moves to New Home for 2017-18 Season, Featuring YOKAI, PILLOWTALK and More
by BWW News Desk - Aug 25, 2017


The Tank will present their 2017/18 Season out of a new home at 312 West 36th Street which boasts two theater spaces, a 98 seat proscenium and 56 seat blackbox. Building upon The Tank's 14-year legacy of providing a home for new work by emerging artists, The Tank is thrilled to bring their producing and presenting together under one roof.

The Brick Theater Presents Arts and Activism Festival THIS IS NOT NORMAL
by BWW News Desk - May 30, 2017


This Is Not Normal is an arts festival at The Brick. Replete with plays, puppetry and performance works, as well as weekly cabarets and calls to action, the festival aims to remind us of the reality we live in and the reality we are moving towards.

Theatre of War presents FLYING DUTCHMAN
by A.A. Cristi - May 3, 2017


Experimental theater collective, Theatre Of War revives Amiri Baraka's fevered racial allegory for our abnormal times at The Brick Theater in Williamsburg

Dutchman FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

What productions of Dutchman have there been?
Dutchman has had 2 productions including Off-Broadway which opened in 1964 and Off-Broadway which opened in 2007.
What awards has Dutchman been nominated for?
Dutchman has been nominated for several awards. LeRoi Jones was nominated for Best New American Play at the Obie Awards, and Jennifer West was nominated for Performance at the Theatre World Awards.
What awards has Dutchman won?
Dutchman has won the Best New American Play award at the Obie Awards for LeRoi Jones and the Performance award at the Theatre World Awards for Jennifer West.

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