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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 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
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is a 1982 play – one of the ten-play Century Cycle by August Wilson – that chronicles the 20th-century African-American experience. The play is set in a recording studio in 1920s Chicago, and deals with issues of race, art, religion, and the historic exploitation of black recording artists by white producers.
The Black Hermit was the first play by the Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, and the first published East African play in English. [1] The travelling theatre of Makerere College was the first to produce the play, [2] putting it on in honour of Ugandan independence at the Ugandan National Theatre in Kampala in November 1962.
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
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)
Robert O'Hara (born c. 1970) [1] is an American playwright and director. He has written Insurrection: Holding History and Bootycandy. [2] Insurrection is a time traveling play exploring racial and sexual identity. [3]
This allowed serious black actors transcend the stereotyped and comedic roles, which they were normally expected to play. The Lafayette Players began performing for almost exclusively Black audiences. The plays they would perform were shows that were popular in the white theater repertory as well as the classics.