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Subject(s)

• African American theater [Browse]
• African American theatrical producers and directors [Browse]
• African American dramatists [Browse]
• African American actors [Browse]

Editor

• Perkins, Kathy A., 1954- [Browse]
• Richards, Sandra L., 1946- [Browse]
• Alexander Craft, Renee [Browse]
• DeFrantz, Thomas [Browse]

Series

Routledge theatre and performance companions. [More in this series]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Black art now / by Nambi E. Kelley
• Introduction / Renee Alexander Craft, Thomas F. DeFrantz. Kathy A. Perkins, and Sandra L. Richards
• Highlights of African American theatre and performance
• Seeing ourselves onstage / edited and Introduced by Thomas F. DeFrantz
• Dudley, the smart set, and the beginning of the Black entertainment industry / Nadine George-Graves
• Black theatre history plays : remembering, recovering, re-envisioning / Sandra Mayo
• "Hung be the heavens with black" bodies : an analysis of the August 1822 riot at William Brown's Greenwich Village theater / Marvin McAllister
• Mulattoes, mistresses, and mammies : the phantom family in Langston Hughes's Mulatto / Alison Walls
• Interview with Woodie King, Jr., producer and director / Jameeka Holloway-Burrell
• Freedom forward : Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry circling Broadway in the 1950s / Barbara Lewis
• Navigating respectability in turn of the century New York City : intimate apparel by Nynn Nottage / Marta Effinger-Crichlow
• Earle Hyman : Scandinavian successes / Baron Kelly
• Pittsburgh piety : a century of symbolism / Pedro E. Alvarado
• Interview with Ron Simons, Broadway producer / Lisa B. Thompson
• Interview with Paul Tazewell, costume designer / Niiamar Felder
• Race on the opera stage / Twila L. Perry
• The Wiz and the African diaspora musical : rethinking the research questions in Black musical historiography / Sam O'Connell
• Bob Cole's "colored man's declaration of independence" : the case of Shoo Fly Regiment and George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along / Paula Marie Seniors
• Shuffle Along and ethnic humor : a family story / Sandra Seaton
• Interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa, dance critic / Thomas F. Defrantz
• Black female sexuality in the drama of Pearl Cleage / Beth Turner
• Coming-of-age and rituals of gender nonconformity in Leslie Lee's The first breeze of summer / Rhone Fraser
• Pomo afro homos : a revolutionary act / Tabitha Jamie Mary Chester
• Institution building : making a space of our own / edited and Introduced by Kathy A. Perkins
• Being black on stage and screen : black actor training before black power and the rise of Stanislavski's system / Monica White Ndounou
• Visionary African American women theatre artists : Anita Bush, Barbara Ann Teer and Ellen Stewart / Sandra Adell
• The birth of Queen Anne : re-discovering Anne Cooke at Spelman College / Leslye Joy Allen
• The Howard University Players : from respectability politics to Black representation / Denise J. Hart and Kathy A. Perkins
• An African American theatre program for the 21st century / Nefertiti Burton
• Interview with Karen Allen Baxter, managing director of Rites and Reason theatre / Jasmine Johnson
• The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. : one moment in time? / Susan Watson Turner
• Interview with Shirley Prendergast, lighting designer / Kathy A. Perkins
• Interview with Femi Sarah Heggie, stage manager / Kathy A. Perkins
• Weathering the winds of change : the sustainability of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company / Gregory S. Carr
• The National Black Theatre Festival and the "marvtastic" legacy of Larry Leon Hamlin / J.K. Curry
• The Black feminist theatre of Glenda Dickerson / Khalid Yaya Long
• Ernie McClintock's jazz acting : a theatre of common sense / Elizabeth M. Cizmar
• Black acting methods® : mapping the movement / Sharrell D. Luckett
• Financial fitness of Black theatres : roundtable of artistic directors / K. Zaheerah Sultan
• A reflection on the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff's The hip hop project : insight into the hip hop generation / Johnny Jones
• Interview with Ekundayo Bandele, founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre / Shondrika Moss-Bouldin.

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ISBN

• 9781138726710 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)
• 1138726710 (hardcover ; : alkaline paper)

LCCN

2018028249

OCLC

1041234449

Other standard number

• 40028823191

RCP

N - S

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