ISBN:
9781138726710
,
1138726710
Language:
English
Pages:
xxiv, 425 pages
,
illustrations
,
26 cm
Series Statement:
Routledge theatre and performance companions
Series Statement:
Routledge companions
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Routledge companion to African American theatre and performance
DDC:
792.08996073
Keywords:
African American theater
;
African American theatrical producers and directors
;
African American dramatists
;
African American actors
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
USA
;
Theater
;
Schwarze
;
Regisseur
;
Schauspieler
;
Theaterschaffender
;
Theaterproduzent
;
Theaterintendant
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Black art now / by Nambi E. Kelley -- Introduction / Renee Alexander Craft, Thomas F. DeFrantz. Kathy A. Perkins, and Sandra L. Richards -- Highlights of African American theatre and performance -- Seeing ourselves onstage / edited and Introduced by Thomas F. DeFrantz -- Dudley, the smart set, and the beginning of the Black entertainment industry / Nadine George-Graves -- Black theatre history plays : remembering, recovering, re-envisioning / Sandra Mayo -- "Hung be the heavens with black" bodies : an analysis of the August 1822 riot at William Brown's Greenwich Village theater / Marvin McAllister -- Mulattoes, mistresses, and mammies : the phantom family in Langston Hughes's Mulatto / Alison Walls -- Interview with Woodie King, Jr., producer and director / Jameeka Holloway-Burrell -- Freedom forward : Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry circling Broadway in the 1950s / Barbara Lewis -- Navigating respectability in turn of the century New York City : intimate apparel by Nynn Nottage / Marta Effinger-Crichlow -- Earle Hyman : Scandinavian successes / Baron Kelly -- Pittsburgh piety : a century of symbolism / Pedro E. Alvarado -- Interview with Ron Simons, Broadway producer / Lisa B. Thompson -- Interview with Paul Tazewell, costume designer / Niiamar Felder -- Race on the opera stage / Twila L. Perry -- The Wiz and the African diaspora musical : rethinking the research questions in Black musical historiography / Sam O'Connell -- Bob Cole's "colored man's declaration of independence" : the case of Shoo Fly Regiment and George C. Wolfe's Shuffle Along / Paula Marie Seniors -- Shuffle Along and ethnic humor : a family story / Sandra Seaton -- Interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa, dance critic / Thomas F. Defrantz -- Black female sexuality in the drama of Pearl Cleage / Beth Turner -- Coming-of-age and rituals of gender nonconformity in Leslie Lee's The first breeze of summer / Rhone Fraser -- Pomo afro homos : a revolutionary act / Tabitha Jamie Mary Chester -- Institution building : making a space of our own / edited and Introduced by Kathy A. Perkins -- Being black on stage and screen : black actor training before black power and the rise of Stanislavski's system / Monica White Ndounou -- Visionary African American women theatre artists : Anita Bush, Barbara Ann Teer and Ellen Stewart / Sandra Adell -- The birth of Queen Anne : re-discovering Anne Cooke at Spelman College / Leslye Joy Allen -- The Howard University Players : from respectability politics to Black representation / Denise J. Hart and Kathy A. Perkins -- An African American theatre program for the 21st century / Nefertiti Burton -- Interview with Karen Allen Baxter, managing director of Rites and Reason theatre / Jasmine Johnson -- The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. : one moment in time? / Susan Watson Turner -- Interview with Shirley Prendergast, lighting designer / Kathy A. Perkins -- Interview with Femi Sarah Heggie, stage manager / Kathy A. Perkins -- Weathering the winds of change : the sustainability of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company / Gregory S. Carr -- The National Black Theatre Festival and the "marvtastic" legacy of Larry Leon Hamlin / J.K. Curry -- The Black feminist theatre of Glenda Dickerson / Khalid Yaya Long -- Ernie McClintock's jazz acting : a theatre of common sense / Elizabeth M. Cizmar -- Black acting methods® : mapping the movement / Sharrell D. Luckett -- Financial fitness of Black theatres : roundtable of artistic directors / K. Zaheerah Sultan -- A reflection on the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff's The hip hop project : insight into the hip hop generation / Johnny Jones -- Interview with Ekundayo Bandele, founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre / Shondrika Moss-Bouldin
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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