The Black Theater

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Black Theater City Life

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Author : Macelle Mahala
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2022-08-15

Black Theater City Life written by Macelle Mahala and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-15 with Performing Arts categories.

Macelle Mahala’s rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community in which a play is staged is as important to the work’s meaning as the script or set, Mahala focuses on four cities’ “arts ecologies” to shed new light on the unique relationship between performance and place: Cleveland, home to the oldest continuously operating Black theater in the country; Pittsburgh, birthplace of the legendary playwright August Wilson; San Francisco, a metropolis currently experiencing displacement of its Black population; and Atlanta, a city with forty years of progressive Black leadership and reverse migration. Black Theater, City Life looks at Karamu House Theatre, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre Company, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the African American Shakespeare Company, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, and Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company to demonstrate how each organization articulates the cultural specificities, sociopolitical realities, and histories of African Americans. These companies have faced challenges that mirror the larger racial and economic disparities in arts funding and social practice in America, while their achievements exemplify such institutions’ vital role in enacting an artistic practice that reflects the cultural backgrounds of their local communities. Timely, significant, and deeply researched, this book spotlights the artistic and civic import of Black theaters in American cities.

Black Theatre Usa Revised And Expanded Edition Vol 1

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Author : James V. Hatch
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1996-03

Black Theatre Usa Revised And Expanded Edition Vol 1 written by James V. Hatch and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-03 with Drama categories.

A collection of 51 plays that features previously unpublished works, contemporary plays by women, and the modern classics.

Voices Of The Black Theatre

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Author : Loften Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975

Voices Of The Black Theatre written by Loften Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

New Plays For The Black Theatre

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Author : Woodie King (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

New Plays For The Black Theatre written by Woodie King (Jr.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Drama categories.

"Black theatre gives the world a truer picture of what is happening with us on a day to day basis because we very seldom depict the past in our work; we create the present. You can note this in all of the plays in this anthology. Our political situation is a guide for most of the darker peole of the world ... The politics of Black theatre is a cry for change and for all that that means, whether we are on a university campus, in a non-profit resident theatre, or on Broadway. The politics of our 'being there' causes traumatic repercussions ... "--From Introduction, page 1.

Barbara Ann Teer And The National Black Theatre

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Author : Lundeana Marie Thomas
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-12-22

Barbara Ann Teer And The National Black Theatre written by Lundeana Marie Thomas and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-22 with History categories.

While chronicling the development of Teer's National Black Theatre of Harlem, this study explores the National Black Theatre's quest to develop a new black theory of acting. Teer's theory of performance was realized in a theater that combined elements of Pentacostal worship and African ritual, melding spontaneity from the performers, percussive music, singing, dancing, emotional expression from both actors and audience, and spectacle. The National Black Theatre's major achievement is the creation of an original art form that helps African Americans identify with their roots and invites spontaneous audience interaction. The study offers the National Black Theatre as a model African American community theater with valuable lessons for other theaters. The innovative methods of the National Black Theatre provide a model for enlightening and sensitizing audiences to cultural diversity. A pioneering institution, the National Black Theatre has proven itself over its 25 year history to be a cultural treasure and the quintessential theater in Harlem. Also includes maps.(Bibliography, and index; foreword by Dr. Winona Fletcher, Professor Emeritus of Theater and Drama and Afro-American Studies; Founder of the National Black Theatre)

The Black Circuit

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Author : Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-03-09

The Black Circuit written by Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-09 with Social Science categories.

The Black Circuit: Race, Performance, and Spectatorship in Black Popular Theatre presents the first book-length study of Chitlin Circuit theatre, the most popular and controversial form of Black theatre to exist outside the purview of Broadway since the 1980s. Through historical and sociological research, Rashida Z. Shaw McMahon links the fraught racial histories in American slave plantations and early African American cuisine to the performance sites of nineteenth-century minstrelsy, early-twentieth-century vaudeville, and mid-twentieth-century gospel musicals. The Black Circuit traces this rise of a Black theatrical popular culture that exemplifies W. E. B. Du Bois’s 1926 parameters of "for us, near us, by us, and about us," with critical differences that, McMahon argues, complicate our understanding of performance and spectatorship in African American theatre. McMahon shows how an integrated and evolving network of consumerism, culture, circulation, exchange, ideologies, and meaning making has emerged in the performance environments of Chitlin Circuit theatre that is reflective of the broader influences at play in acts of minority spectatorship. She labels this network the Black Circuit.

Black Theatre

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Author : Paul Carter Harrison
language : en
Publisher: Temple University Press
Release Date : 2002-11-08

Black Theatre written by Paul Carter Harrison and has been published by Temple University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11-08 with Performing Arts categories.

Generating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today.Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals."

A History Of African American Theatre

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Author : Errol G. Hill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-07-17

A History Of African American Theatre written by Errol G. Hill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-17 with Drama categories.

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African American Theater

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Author : Glenda Dicker/sun
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-08-23

African American Theater written by Glenda Dicker/sun and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-23 with Literary Criticism categories.

Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater takes the reader on a journey to discover how social realities impacted the plays dramatists wrote and produced. The journey begins in 1850 when most African people were enslaved in America. Along the way, cultural milestones such as Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Freedom Movement are explored. The journey concludes with a discussion of how the past still plays out in the works of contemporary playwrights like August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks. African American Theater moves unsung heroes like Robert Abbott and Jo Ann Gibson Robinson to the foreground, but does not neglect the race giants. For actors looking for material to perform, the book offers exercises to create new monologues and scenes. Rich with myths, history and first person accounts by ordinary people telling their extraordinary stories, African American Theater will entertain while it educates.

New Plays From The Black Theatre

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Author : Ed Bullins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969

New Plays From The Black Theatre written by Ed Bullins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with categories.