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Subject Headings Include:
AFRICAN-AMERICAN THEATER
AFRICAN AMERICANS -- DRAMA
AMERICAN DRAMA – AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTHORS
Play Collections
25 Plays from the Fire This Time Festival
by
Kelley Nicole Girod (Editor)
Call Number: PS628 .F514 T918gi
ISBN: 9781350268111
Publication Date: 2022
Acting up and getting down : plays by African American Texans
by
Sandra Mayo (Editor); Elvin Holt (Editor)
Call Number: PS628.Af8 Ac84ma
ISBN: 9780292754799
Publication Date: 2014
The Apollo Presents... a New Harlem Renaissance
by
Dennis A. Allen
Call Number: PS634.2 .Ap43ne
ISBN: 9780573710940
Publication Date: 2024
Best black plays : the Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting
by
Chuck Smith (Editor)
Call Number: PS627.Af8 B464s
ISBN: 9780810123908
Publication Date: 2007
Black Lives, Black Words
by
Reginald Edmund (Editor)
Call Number: PN6119.7 .B561ed
ISBN: 9781786821515
Publication Date: 2017
Contemporary plays by African American women : ten complete works
by
Sandra Adell (Editor)
Call Number: PS628.Af8 C767ad
ISBN: 9780252039713
Publication Date: 2015
Contemporary Plays by African Women
by
Yvette Hutchison (Editor); Amy Jephta (Editor); Sophia Kwachuh Mempuh; J. C. Niala; Adong Judith; Thembelihle Moyo; Koleka Putuma; Sara Shaarawi; Tosin Jobi-Tume
Call Number: PR9347 .C767hu
ISBN: 9781350034518
Publication Date: 2019
The fire this time : African-American plays for the 21st century
by
Harry J. Elam (Editor); Robert Alexander (Editor)
Call Number: PS628 Af8 F514
ISBN: 1559362057
Publication Date: 2002
Holy ground : the National Black Theatre Festival anthology
by
Michael Dinwiddie (Editor); Jackie Alexander (Preface by); Maya Angelou (Afterword by)
Call Number: PN6119.7 .H747di
ISBN: 9781636700038
Publication Date: 2022
The Methuen drama book of post-Black plays
by
Douglas A. Jones (Editor); Nikkole Salter; Diana Son; Harry J. Elam (Editor)
Call Number: PS634.2 M566eℓ
ISBN: 9781408173824
Publication Date: 2013
Plays from the boom box galaxy : theater from the hip-hop generation
by
Kim Euell (Editor)
Call Number: PS628.Af8 P699e
ISBN: 9781559362924
Publication Date: 2009
Say word! : voices from hip hop theater : an anthology
by
Daniel Banks
Call Number: PS628.Af8 Sa99ba
ISBN: 9780472071326
Publication Date: 2011
Seven Black plays : the Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting
by
Chuck Smith (Editor)
Call Number: PS628.Af8 Se82
ISBN: 0810120453
Publication Date: 2004
Shared stages : ten American dramas of Blacks and Jews
by
Sarah Blacher Cohen (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: PS628.Af8 Sh23
ISBN: 9780791472811
Publication Date: 2007
Audition Monologues
50 African American audition monologues
by
Gus Edwards
Call Number: NS2080 .Ed96Af
ISBN: 0325004579
Publication Date: 2002
Audition speeches for Black, South Asian and Middle Eastern actors : monologues for men
by
Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway
Call Number: NS2080 .Au25m 2016
ISBN: 9781474229135
Publication Date: 2016
Hear Me Now, Volume Two
by
Titilola Dawudu (Editor)
Call Number: PN2080 .H351da v.2
ISBN: 9781350297388
Publication Date: 2022
Hear me now : audition monologues for actors of colour
by
Tamasha Theatre Company Staff; Titilola Dawudu
Call Number: PN2080 .H351da
ISBN: 1786824612
Publication Date: 2019
Monologues for actors of color : women
by
Roberta Uno (Editor)
Call Number: NS2080 .M755 Un6w 2016
ISBN: 9781138857278
Publication Date: 2016
The Oberon book of monologues for Black actors : classical and contemporary speeches from Black British plays : monologues for men. Volume 1
by
Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway (Intro and Notes by)
Call Number: NS2080.Af8 Ob2m v.1
ISBN: 1783190574
Publication Date: 2014
History and Criticism
African American Perspectives in Musical Theatre
by
Eric M. Glover
Call Number: ML401 .G518af
ISBN: 9781350247710
Publication Date: 2023
The American Negro Theatre and the long civil rights era
by
Jonathan Shandell
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781609385958
Publication Date: 2018
Black acting methods : critical approaches
by
Sharrell Luckett (Editor); Tia M. Shaffer (Editor)
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781317441212
Publication Date: 2016
Black acting methods : critical approaches
by
Sharrell Luckett (Editor); Tia M. Shaffer (Editor)
Call Number: PN2061 .B561ℓu
ISBN: 9781138907638
Publication Date: 2016
Black Broadway
by
Stewart F. Lane; Kenny Leon (Foreword by)
Call Number: PN2270.Af8 L244bℓ
ISBN: 9780757003882
Publication Date: 2015
Black Protagonists of Early Modern Spain
by
Michael Kidd (Translator)
Call Number: PQ6221 .B561ki
ISBN: 9781647921422
Publication Date: 2023
Black theatre : ritual performance in the African diaspora
by
Paul Carter Harrison (Editor); Victor Leo Walker (Editor); Gus Edwards (Editor)
Call Number: PR9347 .B561t
ISBN: 1566399432
Publication Date: 2002-03-01
Black Women Directors
by
Christina N. Baker
Call Number: PN1998.2 .B171bℓ
ISBN: 9781978813342
Publication Date: 2022
Blues Mamas and Broadway Belters
by
Masi Asare
Call Number: ML49 .As14bℓ
ISBN: 9781478026730
Publication Date: 2024
The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
by
Harvey Young (Editor)
ISBN: 9781107017122
Publication Date: 2012
Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television
by
Bob McCann
Call Number: PN1995.9 N4 M126en
ISBN: 9781476691404
Publication Date: 2022
Framing Blackness : the African American image in film
by
Ed Guerrero
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 9781439904138
Publication Date: 2012-06-20
The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race
by
Tiziana Morosetti (Editor); Osita Okagbue (Editor)
Call Number: PN2049 .P175mo
ISBN: 9783030439569
Publication Date: 2021
Profiles of African American stage performers and theatre people, 1816-1960
by
Bernard L. Peterson
Call Number: NS2206 .P943p
ISBN: 0313295344
Publication Date: 2000
Readying the Revolution
by
Jonathan Shandell
ISBN: 9780472904808
Publication Date: 2025
Solo/Black/Woman : scripts, interviews, and essays
by
E. Patrick Johnson (Editor); Ramón H. Rivera-Servera (Editor)
Call Number: PS627.Af8 So47jo
ISBN: 9780810129474
Publication Date: 2013
Soundies and the changing image of Black Americans on screen : one dime at a time
by
Susan Delson
Call Number: PN1995.9 .D387so
ISBN: 9780253058539
Publication Date: 2021
Spike Lee's Bamboozled and blackface in American culture
by
Elizabeth L. Sanderson
Call Number: PN1997.B2435
ISBN: 9781476678634
Publication Date: 2019
T. O. B. A. Time
by
Michelle R. Scott
Call Number: PN1580 .Sco85to
ISBN: 9780252044885
Publication Date: 2023
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