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The Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe (WBTT) is a nonprofit theater, located in Sarasota, Florida.In 2022, the WBTT gained national attention for "inclusion" while concurrently representing African-American history and the greater Black community. [1]
Jnana Wilson Cooper, who has been seen in more than a dozen WBTT shows, returns to the stage for a concert in Sarasota with some musical friends.
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Theatre Owners Booking Association, or T.O.B.A., was the vaudeville circuit for African American performers in the 1920s. The theaters mostly had white owners, though about a third of them had Black owners, [1] including the recently restored Morton Theater in Athens, Georgia, originally operated by "Pinky" Monroe Morton, and Douglass Theatre in Macon, Georgia owned and operated by Charles ...
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Theaters like the Pekin Theater in Chicago and the Lafayette Theater in New York City were created and managed by Black entrepreneurs for black performers and audiences. The dominant black Vaudeville theater circuit of the day was the Theater Owners Booking Association (TOBA), known among performers of the time as “Tough On Black Actors ...