Author: Woodie KingPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1617745944
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.
Voices of Color
Author: Woodie KingPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 1617745944
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
A collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights.
Contemporary African American Women Playwrights
Author: Philip C. KolinPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135866481
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
In the last 50 years, American and World theatre have been challenged and enriched by the rise to prominence of numerous female African American dramatists. Contemporary African American Women Playwrights is the first critical volume to explore the contexts and influences of these writers, and their exploration of black history and identity through a wealth of diverse, courageous and visionary dramas.
The Ground on which I Stand
Author: August WilsonPublisher: Theatre Communications Grou
ISBN: 9781559361873
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Black Broadway
Author: Stewart F. LanePublisher:
ISBN: 9780757003882
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Contemporary Plays by Women of Color
Author: Roberta UnoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138189461
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Playwrights of Color
Author: Meg SwansonPublisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
A selection of plays by fifteen playwrights of color, each accompanied by a contextual essay that provides relevant historical, sociological, cultural, and historical backgrounds.
Black Drama Anthology
Author: Woodie KingPublisher:
ISBN: 9780452008069
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 671
Book Description
Contemporary Plays by African American Women
Author: Sandra AdellPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252097815
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
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.
Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Plays by Women
Author: Penny FarfanPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 047205435X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Explores how women playwrights illuminate the contemporary world and contribute to its reshaping
Living with Lynching
Author: Koritha MitchellPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252093526
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms through which African American communities survived actual and photographic mob violence. Often available in periodicals, lynching plays were read aloud or acted out by black church members, schoolchildren, and families. Koritha Mitchell shows that African Americans performed and read the scripts in community settings to certify to each other that lynching victims were not the isolated brutes that dominant discourses made them out to be. Instead, the play scripts often described victims as honorable heads of households being torn from model domestic units by white violence. In closely analyzing the political and spiritual uses of black theatre during the Progressive Era, Mitchell demonstrates that audiences were shown affective ties in black families, a subject often erased in mainstream images of African Americans. Examining lynching plays as archival texts that embody and reflect broad networks of sociocultural activism and exchange in the lives of black Americans, Mitchell finds that audiences were rehearsing and improvising new ways of enduring in the face of widespread racial terrorism. Images of the black soldier, lawyer, mother, and wife helped readers assure each other that they were upstanding individuals who deserved the right to participate in national culture and politics. These powerful community coping efforts helped African Americans band together and withstand the nation's rejection of them as viable citizens. The Left of Black interview with author Koritha Mitchell begins at 14:00. An interview with Koritha Mitchell at The Ohio Channel.