Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Perkins, Kathy A., 1954-
2. Richards, Sandra L., 1946-
3. Alexander Craft, Renee
4. DeFrantz, Thomas

Description

1. xxiv, 425 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series statement

1. Routledge theatre and performance companions

Uniform title

1. Routledge theatre and performance companions.

Subject

1. African American theater
2. African American theatrical producers and directors
3. African American dramatists
4. African American actors

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. Sc E 19-773

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. The Routledge companion to African American theatre and performance / edited by Kathy A. Perkins, Sandra L. Richards, Renée Alexander Craft, and Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Publisher

1. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Routledge theatre and performance companions
2. Routledge theatre and performance companions.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Perkins, Kathy A., 1954- editor.
2. Richards, Sandra L., 1946- editor.
3. Alexander Craft, Renee, editor.
4. DeFrantz, Thomas, editor.

LCCN

1. 2018028249

Other standard identifier

1. 40028823191

ISBN

1. 9781138726710 hardcover ; alkaline paper
2. 1138726710 hardcover ; alkaline paper
3. 9781315191225 electronic book
4. 1315191229 electronic book

Research call number

1. Sc E 19-773
2. MWED 19-2639