Black Theater City Life
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Author |
: Macelle Mahala |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 355 |
Release |
: 2022-08-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810145160 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0810145162 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Theater, City Life by : Macelle Mahala
Macelle Mahala’s rich study of contemporary African American theater institutions reveals how they reflect and shape the histories and cultural realities of their cities. Arguing that the community in which a play is staged is as important to the work’s meaning as the script or set, Mahala focuses on four cities’ “arts ecologies” to shed new light on the unique relationship between performance and place: Cleveland, home to the oldest continuously operating Black theater in the country; Pittsburgh, birthplace of the legendary playwright August Wilson; San Francisco, a metropolis currently experiencing displacement of its Black population; and Atlanta, a city with forty years of progressive Black leadership and reverse migration. Black Theater, City Life looks at Karamu House Theatre, the August Wilson African American Cultural Center, Pittsburgh Playwrights’ Theatre Company, the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, the African American Shakespeare Company, the Atlanta Black Theatre Festival, and Kenny Leon’s True Colors Theatre Company to demonstrate how each organization articulates the cultural specificities, sociopolitical realities, and histories of African Americans. These companies have faced challenges that mirror the larger racial and economic disparities in arts funding and social practice in America, while their achievements exemplify such institutions’ vital role in enacting an artistic practice that reflects the cultural backgrounds of their local communities. Timely, significant, and deeply researched, this book spotlights the artistic and civic import of Black theaters in American cities.
Author |
: Harvey Young |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0810129426 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780810129429 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Theater is Black Life by : Harvey Young
A series of interviews with prominet producers, directors, choreographers, designers, dancers, and actors who tell the history of African American culture in Chicago.
Author |
: Glenda Dicker/sun |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 372 |
Release |
: 2013-08-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745657790 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745657796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis African American Theater by : Glenda Dicker/sun
Written in a clear, accessible, storytelling style, African American Theater will shine a bright new light on the culture which has historically nurtured and inspired Black Theater. Functioning as an interactive guide for students and teachers, African American Theater takes the reader on a journey to discover how social realities impacted the plays dramatists wrote and produced. The journey begins in 1850 when most African people were enslaved in America. Along the way, cultural milestones such as Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Freedom Movement are explored. The journey concludes with a discussion of how the past still plays out in the works of contemporary playwrights like August Wilson and Suzan-Lori Parks. African American Theater moves unsung heroes like Robert Abbott and Jo Ann Gibson Robinson to the foreground, but does not neglect the race giants. For actors looking for material to perform, the book offers exercises to create new monologues and scenes. Rich with myths, history and first person accounts by ordinary people telling their extraordinary stories, African American Theater will entertain while it educates.
Author |
: Errol G. Hill |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 652 |
Release |
: 2003-07-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521624436 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521624435 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis A History of African American Theatre by : Errol G. Hill
Table of contents
Author |
: August Wilson |
Publisher |
: Theatre Communications Grou |
Total Pages |
: 54 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1559361875 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781559361873 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Ground on which I Stand by : August Wilson
August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.
Author |
: Carlyle Brown |
Publisher |
: Dramatists Play Service, Inc. |
Total Pages |
: 68 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0822213788 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780822213789 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The African Company Presents Richard III by : Carlyle Brown
THE STORY: Earning their bread with satires of white high society, the African Company came to be known for debunking the sacred status of the English classics (which many politically and racially motivated critics said were beyond the scope of bla
Author |
: Lundeana Marie Thomas |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2015-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317776963 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317776968 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis Barbara Ann Teer and the National Black Theatre by : Lundeana Marie Thomas
While chronicling the development of Teer's National Black Theatre of Harlem, this study explores the National Black Theatre's quest to develop a new black theory of acting. Teer's theory of performance was realized in a theater that combined elements of Pentacostal worship and African ritual, melding spontaneity from the performers, percussive music, singing, dancing, emotional expression from both actors and audience, and spectacle. The National Black Theatre's major achievement is the creation of an original art form that helps African Americans identify with their roots and invites spontaneous audience interaction. The study offers the National Black Theatre as a model African American community theater with valuable lessons for other theaters. The innovative methods of the National Black Theatre provide a model for enlightening and sensitizing audiences to cultural diversity. A pioneering institution, the National Black Theatre has proven itself over its 25 year history to be a cultural treasure and the quintessential theater in Harlem. Also includes maps.(Bibliography, and index; foreword by Dr. Winona Fletcher, Professor Emeritus of Theater and Drama and Afro-American Studies; Founder of the National Black Theatre)
Author |
: Paul Carter Harrison |
Publisher |
: Temple University Press |
Total Pages |
: 432 |
Release |
: 2002-11-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781566399449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1566399440 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Black Theatre by : Paul Carter Harrison
Generating a new understanding of the past—as well as a vision for the future—this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today.Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre. This theatre, rooted in an African mythos, offers ritual rather than realism; it transcends the specifics of social relations, reaching toward revelation. The ritual performance that is intrinsic to Black theatre renews the community; in Paul Carter Harrison's words, it "reveals the Form of Things Unknown" in a way that "binds, cleanses, and heals."
Author |
: Anthony D. Hill |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 755 |
Release |
: 2018-11-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538117293 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538117290 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical Dictionary of African American Theater by : Anthony D. Hill
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater reflects the rich history and representation of the black aesthetic and the significance of African American theater’s history, fleeting present, and promise to the future. It celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States and the thousands of black theater artists across the country—identifying representative black theaters, playwrights, plays, actors, directors, and designers and chronicling their contributions to the field from the birth of black theater in 1816 to the present. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on actors, playwrights, plays, musicals, theatres, -directors, and designers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know and more about African American Theater.
Author |
: Kathy A. Perkins |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 566 |
Release |
: 2018-12-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351751438 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351751433 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (38 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance by : Kathy A. Perkins
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance—from the nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers, including producers, theatre managers, choreographers, directors, designers, and critics. This ambitious Companion includes: A "Timeline of African American theatre and performance." Part I "Seeing ourselves onstage" explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas, Broadway musicals, and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness. Part II "Institution building" highlights institutions that have nurtured Black people both on stage and behind the scenes. Topics include Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), festivals, and black actor training. Part III "Theatre and social change" surveys key moments when Black people harnessed the power of theatre to affirm community realities and posit new representations for themselves and the nation as a whole. Topics include Du Bois and African Muslims, women of the Black Arts Movement, Afro-Latinx theatre, youth theatre, and operatic sustenance for an Afro future. Part IV "Expanding the traditional stage" examines Black performance traditions that privilege Black worldviews, sense-making, rituals, and innovation in everyday life. This section explores performances that prefer the space of the kitchen, classroom, club, or field. This book engages a wide audience of scholars, students, and theatre practitioners with its unprecedented breadth. More than anything, these invaluable insights not only offer a window onto the processes of producing work, but also the labour and economic issues that have shaped and enabled African American theatre. Chapter 20 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.