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Funnyhouse of a Negro is a one-act play by Adrienne Kennedy.The play opened off-Broadway in 1964 and won the Obie Award for Distinguished Play. [1] The play shared this award with Amiri Baraka's Dutchman, and was influenced by her radical imagination; critics have read it in conversation with both the Black Arts Movement and the Theater of the Absurd. [2]
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.
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It is called a black musical because of the African American cast, even though neither the music or plot is of the “Negro inspiration” like the creators proclaim. "Porgy and Bess marked the nadir in the history of black musical comedy, symbolizing the end of tradition and experimentation in black musical theater on Broadway". [15]
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
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