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A history of the WPA's Negro theatre project in New York City, 1935-1939 [microform] / Robert A. Adubato.

Microform

1978.

1978

1 item

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FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro F-10533Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Black theatre in the 1960s and 1970s : a historical-critical analysis of the movement / Mance Williams.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1985.

1985

1 item

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Das Theater Schwarzamerikas : von der Fremd- zur Selbstbestimmung / Norbert Münnig.

Book/Text

Frankfurt am Main ; New York : Lang, c1985.

1985

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 87-395Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The development of black theater in America : from shadows to selves / Leslie Catherine Sanders.

Book/Text

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c1988.

1988

2 items

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The place of the Negro in the evolution of the American theatre, 1767 to 1940 / Fannin S. Belcher, Jr.

Microform

1945, c1969

1945

1 item

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The direct and indirect contribution which the American Negro has made to drama and the legitimate stage, with the underlying conditions responsible [microform] / Frederick W. Bond.

Microform

1938.

1938

1 item

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Tony Brown's journal. The Big Black boom on the Great White Way [videorecording] / Tony Brown Productions ; produced by Tony Brown ; directed by Mick Colgan.

VHS

[New York?] :bShowbiz, Inc., c1979.

1979

2 items

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Their place on the stage : Black women playwrights in America / Elizabeth Brown-Guillory ; foreword by Margaret Walker Alexander ; afterword by Gloria T. Hull.

Book/Text

New York : Greenwood Press, 1988.

1988

2 items

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The relationship between the white critic and the Black theatre from 1959-1969 [microform] / by Rhonnie Lynn Washington.

Microform

1983.

1983

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African American folk survivals in contemporary Black American theater [microform] / by Donald Maurice Morales.

Microform

1981.

1981

1 item

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Lester Walton [microform] : Black theatre critic / by Artee F. Young.

Microform

1980.

1980

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Dusky maidens / the odyssey of the early Black dramatic actress / Jo A. Tanner.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1992.

1992

1 item

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Colored actors' union theatrical guide : tells everything you want to know / by Bart Kennett.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : [Colored Actors' Union], c1925.

1925

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare 920-K (Kennett, B. Colored actors' union theatrical guide)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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To "allo" theatro : spoudē stis pheministikes kai aphro-amerikanikes dokimes / Savvas Patsalidēs.

Book/Text

Athēna : Ekdoseis Aphoi Tolidē, 1993.

1993

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWED 94-771Item locationOffsite

The development of an African-based dramatic structure / Joni Lee Jones.

Book/Text

1993.

1993

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 97-45Item locationOffsite

Resistance, parody, and double consciousness in African American theatre, 1895-1910 / David Krasner.

Book/Text

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

1997

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Resistance, parody, and double consciousness in African American theatre, 1895-1910 / David Krasner.

Book/Text

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

1997

1 item

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Free Southern Theater : there is always a message / by Ellen L. Tripp.

Book/Text

1986.

1986

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 98-1099Item locationOffsite

The struggle for administrative and artistic control of the Federal Theatre Negro units / by Tina Redd.

Book/Text

1996.

1996

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Black theatre [videorecording] : the making of a movement / directed by Woodie King, Jr.

DVD

San Francisco, CA : California Newsreel, [2009?]

2009

5 items

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(R)evolution, Black theatre in America / by Rhonda Lorraine Anderson.

Book/Text

1990

1990

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Pioneering Black authored dramas : 1924-27 / by Addell Patricia Austin.

Book/Text

1986.

1986

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 99-2263Item locationOffsite

African American theatre : an historical and critical analysis / Samuel A. Hay.

Book/Text

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.

1994

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 94-240Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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A sourcebook of African-American performance : plays, people, movements / edited by Annemarie Bean.

Book/Text

London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

1999

2 items

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A history of African American theatre / Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch.

Book/Text

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

2003

1 item

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The secret messages in African American theater ; hidden meanings embedded in public discourse / Kimmika Williams-Witherspoon.

Book/Text

Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.

2006

1 item

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A history of African American theatre / Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch.

Book/Text

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

2005-2003

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FormatBook/TextCall numberMWED 07-6177Item locationOffsite

Bert Williams sings on Columbia 78's [sound recording] ; Role of the Negro in the theater.

Spoken word recording

[19--?].

19

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Darkening mirrors : imperial representation in Depression-era African American performance / Stephanie Leigh Batiste.

Book/Text

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

2011

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 12-226Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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African and African American theatre : past and present / edited by Rhona Justice-Malloy.

Book/Text

Tuscaloosa, Ala. : University of Alabama Press, 2010.

2010

1 item

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The Cambridge companion to African American theatre / edited by Harvey Young.

Book/Text

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

2013

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Aristotle and Black drama : a theater of civil disobedience / Patrice D. Rankine.

Book/Text

Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, [2013]

2013

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Penumbra : the premier stage for African American drama / Macelle Mahala ; foreword by Lou Bellamy.

Book/Text

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2013]

2013

1 item

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Staging faith : religion and African American theater from the Harlem renaissance to World War II / Craig R. Prentiss.

Book/Text

New York : New York Press, [2014]

2014

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Theorizing black theatre : art versus protest in critical writings, 1898-1965 / Henry D. Miller ; foreword by James V. Hatch.

Book/Text

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2011.

2011

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 14-727Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Coloring whiteness : acts of critique in Black performance / Faedra Chatard Carpenter.

Book/Text

Ann Arbor [Michigan] : The University of Michigan Press, [2014]

2014

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 15-311Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Some of these days [electronic resource] : black stars, jazz aesthetics, and modernist culture / James Donald.

Web Resource

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

2015-2015

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