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The concept was originated by the American playwright Jeremy O. Harris, when his play Slave Play was staged before an audience of 804 black students, artists, journalists and performers in September 2019. [1] Two performances in the London run of the play in 2024 were also scheduled to be black out performances. [2]
Over the course of more than 300 productions, the National Black Theater has earned more than 45 AUDELCO Black Theatre Excellence Awards, and continues to be a successful institution of African-American theater. [15] By 1986, the theatre was recognized as one of the most important arts institutions in America by President Ronald Reagan.
Black theatre or black theater may refer to: Black light theatre, a staging concept using black backgrounds and black light; Black Theatre (Sydney), an Australian Aboriginal theatre company 1972–1977; African-American musical theater, prominent especially in New York City
The American Negro Theatre (ANT) was co-founded on June 5, 1940 by playwright Abram Hill and actor Frederick O'Neal. [1] Determined to build a "people's theatre", they were inspired by the Federal Theatre Project's Negro Unit in Harlem and by W. E. B. Du Bois' "four fundamental principles" of Black drama: that it should be by, about, for, and near African Americans.
The African Theatre was an African-American acting troupe in New York City established by William Henry Brown (also known as William Alexander Brown) in the 1820s. The troupe performed plays by Shakespeare and plays written by Brown, several of which were anti-colonization and anti-slavery .
Black light theatre (in Czech černé divadlo) or simply black theatre, is a theatrical performance style characterized by the use of black box theatre augmented by black light illusion. This form of theatre originated from Asia and can be found in many places around the world. It has become a speciality of Prague, where many theatres use it.
1940 proved to be a pivotal year for African-American theater. Frederick O'Neal and Abram Hill founded ANT, or the American Negro Theater, the most renowned African-American theater group of the 1940s. Their stage was small and located in the basement of a library in Harlem, and most of the shows were attended and written by African-Americans.
The black musicians and composers of the Vaudeville era influenced what is now known as American musical comedy, jazz, blues and Broadway musical theater. The popular music of the time was ragtime , a lively form developed from black folk music prominently featuring piano and banjo. [ 38 ]