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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
This collection explores an array of themes connected to Black American life. Many of the included works contain elements of social criticism and messages of anti-racism. All but one were written in the early 1970s a "a socially and politically dynamic moment in the nation's history and a renaissance decade for black theater." [2]
Cook's Clorindy, or The Origin of the Cake Walk, an hour-long sketch that was the first all-black show to play in a prestigious Broadway house, Casino Theatre's Roof Garden. Cole's A Trip to Coontown was the first full-length New York musical comedy written, directed and performed exclusively by blacks. The approach of the two composers were ...
When W. E. B. Du Bois saw a production of the Negro Players performing Ridgely Torrence's Three Plays for a Negro Theater in 1917, it influenced him to write, "The present spiritual production in the souls of Black folk is going to give American stage a drama that will lift it above silly songs and leg shows."
M Ensemble also consistently facilitates theater workshops for children and adults and presentations for Kwanzaa and Black Music Month. [ 1 ] The M Ensemble was established by T.G. Cooper in 1971, but has been led by co-founders Shirley Richardson & Pat Williams for almost the entirety of its existence.
The play opened at Johannesburg's Market Theater and toured in Europe and America. The Market Theater, pioneered by Barney Simon, allowed multiracial casts and audiences and was often threatened by the government. It was the most successful play to come out of South Africa, winning more than 20 awards worldwide.
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.
In 1949, a national readers theater tour by the First Drama Quartet—Charles Laughton, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Boyer, and Cedric Hardwicke [3] —appeared in 35 states, putting on 500 performances. Their presentation of Don Juan in Hell was seen by more than a half-million people.