[Ossie Davis as Jeb Turner and Ruby Dee as Libby George in "Jeb".]

[Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger, Claudia McNeil as Lena Younger and Ossie Davis as Walter Lee Younger in "A Raisin in the Sun".]

[Ian Keith as Major Robert Spaulding, Josh White, Jr. as Jimmy Clay, and Ossie Davis as Dr. Joseph Clay in "Touchstone".]

[Ruby Dee as Ruth Younger, Sidney Poitier as Walter Lee Younger and Claudia McNeil as Lena Younger in "A Raisin in the Sun".]

[Katharine Cornell as Oparre in "The Wingless Victory".]

[James Earl Jones as Ephraim and Vinnette Carroll as Sophia Adams in "Moon on a Rainbow Shawl".]

[Hilda Haynes as May Scott, Beah Richards as Grandmother, and Bill Gunn as Spencer Scott in "Take a Giant Step".]

[Canada Lee as Bigger Thomas, Rodester Timmons as G.H. Rankin, James Flash Riley as Jack, and Wardell Saunders as Gus Mitchell in "Native Son".]

[Godfrey Cambridge as Diouf and Cicely Tyson as Stephanie Virtue Diop.]

[Earle Hyman and Vinie Burrows in "The Worlds of Shakespeare".]

[Joyce Davis as Rachel Clews and Stephen Pearlman as Walter Barrett in "A Time of the Key".]

[Humphrey Davis as Randolph Chesterton and Nancy R. Pollock as Olla Robinson in "A Dream of Swallows".]

[George Segal as Tolen and Alexandra Berlin as Nancy in "The Knack".]

[Janet MacLachlan as Blanche Le Pass, Pawnee Sills as Eva Boxx, and Clayton Corbin as Samuel Belafunky in "Raisin' Hell in the Sun".]

[Richard Burton as Hamlet and Eileen Herlie as Gertrude in "Hamlet".]

[Diana Adams as Cassandra, William Shust as Agamemnon, and Rowena Burack as Clytemnestra in "Agamemnon".]

[Tom Helmore as Julian Pugh and Arthur Margetson as Arthur Pomfret in "Clutterbuck".]

[Theresa Merritt as Henrietta Pinkston and Lex Monson as Rev. Bradford Parham in "Trumpets of the Lord".]

[William Shatner as Paul Sevigne and Julie Harris as Josefa Lantenay in "A Shot in the Dark".]

[Canada Lee as David Bennett and Will Geer as Ed Tilden in "On Whitman Avenue".]