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A Madea Christmas (musical play) Madea Gets a Job; Madea Goes to Jail (play) Madea's Big Happy Family; Madea's Class Reunion; Madea's Family Reunion (play) Marilyn and Ella; The Marriage Counselor; Meet the Browns (play) The Mighty Gents; The Mountaintop; A Movie Star Has To Star in Black and White
Anna Lucasta is a 1944 American play by Philip Yordan.Inspired by Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, the play was originally written about a Polish American family.The American Negro Theatre director Abram Hill and director Harry Wagstaff Gribble adapted the script for an all African American cast, and presented the first performance on June 16, 1944.
A Soldier's Play by Charles Fuller is the story of the murder of a black soldier on a Southern army base during World War II, and the subsequent investigation by a black army captain. It examines black pride and black self-hatred, and won both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Best Play awards.
The company consisted of only black actors who were cast as serious dramatic roles—something that was unheard of at the time. White playwrights, who intended to have white actors playing them, wrote many of these roles. This allowed serious black actors transcend the stereotyped and comedic roles, which they were normally expected to play.
Per Parry, Negro History Week started during a time when Black history was being "misrepresented and demoralized" by white scholars who promoted ideas like the Lost Cause or the Plantation Myth ...
Taboo (1922 play) A Taste of Honey; The Far Country (play) The Road (play) This Is How It Goes; Thurgood (play) To Kill a Mockingbird (2018 play) Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History; Trying to Find Chinatown; Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
This year's Black History Month has the theme "African Americans and Labor." The ASALH shares that this theme "focuses on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds—free ...
The Battle of Hastings (play) Battle of Tippecanoe Outdoor Drama; Becket; The Belle of Amherst; A Bequest to the Nation; Bhopal (play) The Black Prince (play) Black Watch (play) Blood at the Root (play) Bloody Poetry; Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry; Boesman and Lena; The Bomb (play) Bonduca; The Burning (play) Byzantium (play)