black playwrights saw it, the barriers that most white Americans could never fully understand. Productions like West Side Story had to portray the streets of a gang war, before urban productions had to become prominent enough to provide any kind of an adequate example on such material. Scenery of the 1960s is most significant in its reflection of issues relevant at the time in newer plays. Even plays set in a different time period were influenced by the social changes America was seeing. ...
