Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

• Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Perkins, Kathy A., 1954-
• Richards, Sandra L., 1946-
• Alexander Craft, Renee
• DeFrantz, Thomas

Description

xxiv, 425 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge theatre and performance companions

Uniform Title

Routledge theatre and performance companions.

Subjects

• African American dramatists
• African American theater
• African American actors
• African American theatrical producers and directors

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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

Sc E 19-773

ISBN

• 9781138726710
• 1138726710
• 9781315191225 (canceled/invalid)
• 1315191229 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

• 2018028249
• 40028823191

OCLC

1041234449

Title

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

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

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge theatre and performance companions

Routledge theatre and performance companions.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Perkins, Kathy A., 1954- editor.

Richards, Sandra L., 1946- editor.

Alexander Craft, Renee, editor.

DeFrantz, Thomas, editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40028823191

Research Call Number

Sc E 19-773

MWED 19-2639