Drama - American - African American & Black

"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. This edition presents the...

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama...

"The Broadway revival of 'A Raisin in the Sun' was produced by Scott Rudin at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre on April 3, 2014. The production was directed by Kenny Leon, with set design by Mark Thompson..."--Page [9].Author: Lorraine HansberryPublisher: Concord TheatricalsPublished: 02/10/2010Pages: 162Binding Type:...

An estranged bi-racial couple must confront their feelings about race and bias after their son is detained by the local police following a traffic stop incident. Their disparate histories and backgrounds inform their assumptions as they try to find out what happened to their...

Includes Revised Broadway version of AppropriateWinner of three 2024 Tony Awards including Best Revival of a PlayA double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent of...

United States Artists Fellow, winner of Yale's Windham Campbell Prize in Drama, and Associate Company Member at Pillsbury House + Theatre (PHT) Sharon Bridgforth queerly/explores her relationship with her aging mother as she seeks to recover, understand, hold and heal the love that she...

An award-winning play from one of America's most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till. - "A play with fires of fury in its belly, tears of anguish in its eyes, a...

"Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic, and daring storyteller who tells a story an audience won't expect."-Time Out New York"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history-and the startling simplicity of desire-with...

"A deceptively simple flavor-bomb of a new comedy about survival, second chances, and digesting whatever life serves up." --Naveen Kumar, VarietyWith a chance at reclaiming their lives, the formerly incarcerated people working at Clyde's, a roadside sandwich stop, strive hard to overcome their personal...

Zora Neale Hurston's tragic 1926 play Color Struck is a thought-provoking commentary on colorism within the Black community. Set in Florida in 1900, Colour Struck begins on a Jim Crow train carriage. Barely making the train, Emma and John's journey commences with an argument....

"Dutchman is designed to shock--its basic idea, its language and its murderous rage." --New York TimesCentered squarely on the Negro-white conflict, both Dutchman and The Slave are shocking plays--in ideas, in language, in honest anger. They illuminate as with a flash of lightning a...

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama "Dazzling and ruthless...One of the most exquisitely and systematically arranged ambushes of an unsuspecting audience in years...A glorious, scary reminder of the unmatched power of live theater to rattle, roil and shake us wide awake." --Ben...

Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, James Ijames' Fat Ham reinvents Shakespeare's masterpiece in startling and hilarious ways amidst the backdrop of a family barbecue in the American South.Winner of the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ+ Drama.Juicy-a young, queer, Southern man,...

From legendary playwright August Wilson comes the powerful, stunning dramatic bestseller that won him critical acclaim, including the Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize. Troy Maxson is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy...

Drama / 5m, 2f / 1 Set Winner of the New York Drama Critic's and Tony Awards as well as the Pulitzer Prize, this sensational drama starred James Earl Jones as Troy Maxson, a former star of the Negro baseball leagues who now works...

Ntozake Shange's classic, award-winning play encompassing the wide-ranging experiences of Black women, now with introductions by two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown. From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie...

"No one except perhaps Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater."--John Lahr, The New Yorker"A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty. Theatergoers who have followed August Wilson's career will find in Gem a touchstone...

"The bitingly funny and fierce Gloria is one of the year's best shows...Gloria is an adrenaline rush of a show, but it also makes you think. Let's just say it hits the bull's-eye." --Elisabeth Vincentelli, New York Post "Funny, blistering tragicomedy...along with a delightfully...

"Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity of desire--with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion." --Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrightIntimate Apparel: "Thoughtful, affecting new play . . . with seamless elegance."--Charles...

"Wilson's melody here is the mournful sound of what might have been, a blues-tinged tale about a driven, almost demonic man. He's a petty thief named King who will stop at nothing for a better life. . . . King Hedley is a big...