Hurston wrote a short story, titled “Spunk,” in 1925 and a decade later she turned it into a play. In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a short story titled “Spunk,” and a decade later she turned it into ...

Zora Neale Hurston posing outside of a cabin in Belle Glade, Florida, circa 1935 Lomax Collection / LOC / PhotoQuest / Getty Images Nearly a century after it was completed, a Zora Neale Hurston play ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The cast of "Spunk,"Zora Neale Hurston's fable about the triump of love, which runs Oct. 3-23 Yale Repertory Theatre. (Brad Holley ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. J. Quiniton Johnson and Kimber Elayne Sprawl in a scene from Yale Repertory Theatre's production of "Spunk," by Zora Neale Hurston ...

Zora Neale Hurston, the celebrated Harlem Renaissance author, wanted to stage a play with an all-Black cast at Rollins College — just a stone’s throw from where she had grown up in Eatonville. The ...

The Yale Repertory Theatre is on a roll of rediscovery. The theater’s current production of Zora Neale Hurston‘s” Spunk” is an even bigger deal than last season’s revival of Steve Carter’s “Eden.” ...