Within the relatively recent development of a tradition of African American playwriting, the Theodore Ward Prize has, over its twenty-year history, offered a rich reflection of the accomplishments of emerging and established black playwrights and their growing importance in shaping contemporary theater. This volume showcases three winners of the Theodore Ward Prize--plays that in their quality and subject matter aptly represent what is being written and produced by African American playwrights and theaters today. Carefully selected by a director and educator who has been affiliated with...
Within the relatively recent development of a tradition of African American playwriting, the Theodore Ward Prize has, over its twenty-year history, of...
A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1960s deals with the search for identity and asks the question, Should Blacks define themselves in relationship to white people and white culture? In dramatizing the struggles and desires of the Black working class and lower middle class, renowned Detroit playwright Ron Milner responds to this question by letting Black culture - Black music in particular - be not only his subject but part of his form of expression and way of being in the world....
A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1...
A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1960s deals with the search for identity and asks the question, Should Blacks define themselves in relationship to white people and white culture? In dramatizing the struggles and desires of the Black working class and lower middle class, renowned Detroit playwright Ron Milner responds to this question by letting Black culture - Black music in particular - be not only his subject but part of his form of expression and way of being in the world....
A collection of four plays by contemporary playwright, screenwriter, and director Ron Milner. Much of Black literature from the 1940s through the 1...
Playwrights include: Claudette Alexander-Thomason, Amiri Baraka, William Branch, Ed Bullins, China Clark, Tom Cole, J.E. Franklin, P.J. Gibson, William Hairston, Paul Carter Harrison, Bill Harris, Laurence Holder, Walter Jones, Joseph Lizardi, Winston Lovett, Malik and Cassandra Medley.
Playwrights include: Claudette Alexander-Thomason, Amiri Baraka, William Branch, Ed Bullins, China Clark, Tom Cole, J.E. Franklin, P.J. Gibson, Willia...
(Applause Books). "Though New York remains the de facto capital of American theater, much of the most daring and interesting work today is done by regional theaters. This is doubly true of plays by African American authors, who, despite a few notable exceptions (August Wilson, George C. Wolfe), suffer under a commercial apartheid that keeps black plays off Broadway. Of necessity, African American theater artists have to create their own venues from the ground up. This wide-ranging anthology edited by the founder of the New Federal Theater celebrates the work of that company's black-owned,...
(Applause Books). "Though New York remains the de facto capital of American theater, much of the most daring and interesting work today is done by reg...
A 1974 New York Times Notable Book and 1975 Edgar Award Nominee BEFORE THERE WAS STREET LIT, THERE WERE THE STREETS ... AND THE JONES MEN RULED THEM "It was The Wire before there was The Wire." - Gar Anthony Haywood DETROIT, 1974 To become the King, you have to take the crown. It won't be given up lightly. Heroin kingpin, Willis McDaniel, has been wearing that particular piece of jewelry for far too long, and youngblood, Lennie Jack, thinks it would look really good on his head. When a junkie tells Jack about a big delivery, the young Vietnam vet makes his move. Feeling his empire crumble,...
A 1974 New York Times Notable Book and 1975 Edgar Award Nominee BEFORE THERE WAS STREET LIT, THERE WERE THE STREETS ... AND THE JONES MEN RULED THEM "...
