{{Short description|1967 play by George Tabori}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox play | name = The Niggerlovers | image = | alt = | caption = James Spruill (Freckles), top left, Morgan Freeman (Creampuff), top right, Stacy Keach, center, Viveca Lindfors, bottom, 1967 | writer = | based_on = <!-- {{based on|title of the original work|creator of the original work}} --> | director = | music = George Tabori | lyrics = George Tabori | choreography = | chorus = | characters = Freckles, Creampuff | mute = | setting = | premiere = 1967 | place = | orig_lang = English | series = | subject = | genre = | web = }}
'''''The Niggerlovers''''' was a 1967 play and featured the debut of Morgan Freeman; the original New York version starred Freeman, Stacy Keach and Viveca Lindfors.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/10/02/archives/theater-taboris-niggerlovers-a-play-of-question-two-sketches.html|title=Theater: Tabori's 'Niggerlovers,' a Play of Question; Two Sketches Bridged by Common Theme Viveca Lindfors Seen With Stacy Keach|first=Clive|last=Barnes|work=The New York Times |date=October 2, 1967|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/theater/20webe.html|title=Driving Mr. Freeman Back Onstage|first=Bruce|last=Weber|work=The New York Times |date=April 20, 2008|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/25/theater/morgan-freeman-looks-at-acting.html|title=MORGAN FREEMAN LOOKS AT ACTING|first=Nan|last=Robertson|work=The New York Times |date=May 25, 1987|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.broadwayworld.com/shows/creative.php?showid=328056|title=The Niggerlovers - 1967 Off-Broadway - Creative Team|website=www.broadwayworld.com}}</ref><ref name=W>{{Cite web|url=https://content.wisconsinhistory.org/digital/collection/p15932coll8/id/57493/|title=p. 15|website=content.wisconsinhistory.org}}</ref>
==Overview== A white professor lays his life on the line for social justice and is schooled by two African Americans, Freckles and Creampuff.<ref name=W/>
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==External links== *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftyt30OWFHg&list=PLQmh26M3M9ucLlbOhLNftBLJ36FFrFr3L&index=2 ''Inside the Actors Studio'']
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