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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 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)
Although the plays of the cycle are not strictly connected to the degree of a serial story, some characters appear (at various ages) in more than one of the cycle's plays. Children of characters in earlier plays may appear in later plays. The character most frequently mentioned in the cycle is Aunt Ester, a "washer of souls".
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]
Black literature is far too expansive to cover in just a month, especially if you look back through history at the works of luminaries like Langston Hughes, Toni Morrison, James Baldwin and Nikki ...
Alice Childress (October 12, 1916 [1] – August 14, 1994) was an American novelist, playwright, and actress, acknowledged as "the only African-American woman to have written, produced, and published plays for four decades."