The Routledge companion to African American theatre and performance /
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2019]
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| Series: | Routledge theatre and performance companions.
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Table of 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.