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A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.
Author : Woodie King
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 2000-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1617745944
A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.
Author : Roberta Uno
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,19 MB
Release : 2018
Category : American drama
ISBN : 9781138189461
In the two decades since the first edition of Contemporary Plays by Women of Color published, its significance to the theatrical landscape in the United States has grown exponentially. In this second edition, Roberta Uno brings together an up-to-date selection of plays from renowned and emerging playwrights tackling a variety of topics.
Author : August Wilson
Publisher : Theatre Communications Grou
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 13,91 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781559361873
August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Author : Meg Swanson
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey Publishing
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN :
A selection of plays by fifteen playwrights of color, each accompanied by a contextual essay that provides relevant historical, sociological, cultural, and historical backgrounds.
Author : Stewart F. Lane
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780757003882
The African-American actors and actresses whose names have shone brightly on Broadway marquees earned their place in history not only through hard work, perseverance, and talent, but also because of the legacy left by those who came before them. Like the doors of many professions, those of the theater world were shut to minorities for decades. While the Civil War may have freed the slaves, it was not until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s that the playing field began to level. In this remarkable book, theater producer and historian Stewart F. Lane uses words and pictures to capture this tumultuous century and to highlight the rocky road that black actors have travelled to reach recognition on the Great White Way. After the Civil War, the popularity of the minstrel shows grew by leaps and bounds throughout the country. African Americans were portrayed by whites, who would entertain audiences in black face. While the depiction of blacks was highly demeaning, it opened the door to African-American performers, and by the late 1800s, a number of them were playing to full houses. By the 1920s, the Jazz Age was in full swing, allowing black musicians and composers to reach wider audiences. And in the thirties, musicals such as George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and Eubie Blake's Swing It opened the door a little wider. As the years passed, black performers continued to gain ground. In the 1940s, Broadway productions of Cabin in the Sky, Carmen Jones, and St. Louis Woman enabled African Americans to demonstrate a fuller range of talents, and Paul Robeson reached national prominence in his awarding-winning portrayal of Othello. By the 1950s and '60s, more black actors--including Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, and Sidney Poitier--had found their voices on stage, and black playwrights and directors had begun to make their marks. Black Broadway provides an entertaining, poignant history of a Broadway of which few are aware. By focusing a spotlight on both performers long forgotten and on those whom we still hold dear, this unique book offers a story well worth telling.
Author : Sandra Adell
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0252097815
African American women have increasingly begun to see their plays performed from regional stages to Broadway. Yet many of these artists still struggle to gain attention. In this volume, Sandra Adell draws from the vital wellspring of works created by African American women in the twenty-first century to present ten plays by both prominent and up-and-coming writers. Taken together, the selections portray how these women engage with history as they delve into--and shake up--issues of gender and class to craft compelling stories of African American life. Gliding from gritty urbanism to rural landscapes, these works expand boundaries and boldly disrupt modes of theatrical representation. Selections: Blue Door, by Tanya Barfield; Levee James, by S. M. Shephard-Massat; Hoodoo Love, by Katori Hall; Carnaval, by Nikkole Salter; Single Black Female, by Lisa B. Thompson; Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, by Lynn Nottage; BlackTop Sky, by Christina Anderson; Voyeurs de Venus, by Lydia Diamond; Fedra, by J. Nicole Brooks; and Uppa Creek: A Modern Anachronistic Parody in the Minstrel Tradition, by Keli Garrett.
Author : Woodie King
Publisher :
Page : 671 pages
File Size : 19,3 MB
Release : 1972
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9780452008069
Author : Penny Farfan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 047205435X
Explores how women playwrights illuminate the contemporary world and contribute to its reshaping
Author : Gus Edwards
Publisher : Drama
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780325004570
This collection of powerful and original monologues for African American men and women offer a refreshing alternative to recycled standards.
Author : Jeremy O. Harris
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2024-07-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781839043543
The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation - in the breeze, in the cotton fields... and in the crack of the whip. Nothing is as it seems, and yet everything is as it seems. Jeremy O. Harris's Slave Play rips apart history to shed new light on the nexus of race, gender and sexuality in twenty-first-century America. It opened at New York Theatre Workshop in November 2018, and transferred to Broadway the following year. This edition is published alongside the West End production in 2024. 'How to explain Harris? He is like Tennessee Williams, if Williams had been Prince. Or Truman Capote, if Capote had been Paradise Garage. He is a firebrand writer with whipcrack humour. He has two brilliant plays under his belt, Slave Play and Daddy. He is such a queer hero of our times that the New York neighbourhood he lives in has become fleetingly famous. One of Jeremy O. Harris's plays coming to London is a major event' Evening Standard