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Library of America presents the definitive edition of an essential figure in Black and American theater, spanning from the 1960s to the 2010s and including...

As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952) and the first...

The need to acknowledge these works was the impetus behind this volume. Perkins has selected nineteen plays from seven writers who were among the major...

George C. Wolfe's iconic play on the black experience of the 1980s.   The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining...

"Ambitions beyond the imagination of most Broadway musicals. Anyone who cares about the future of the American musical will want to see Jelly's Last Jam."--Frank Rich, The...

  Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her...

  In the late 60s, Ntozake Shange was a young student at Barnard College discovering her budding talent as a writer, publishing in her school’s...

Two unlikely friends hatch an extraordinary scheme to expose the theater world in this “layered, hyperaware, and as entertaining as it is incendiary” (Mateo Askaripour, New York Times bestselling...

An extraordinary graphic novel of a groundbreaking play When C.L.R. James's Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History opened in...