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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...

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...

Strange and speculative, this 1934 pan-Africanist novel conveys the complexities of Black internationalism in the interwar yearsEre Roosevelt Came is a short novel by early...

"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 short...

In this acclaimed biography of Lorraine Hansberry, Soyica Diggs Colbert narrates a life at the intersection of art and politics, arguing that for Hansberry the...

  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...

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...