Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> American - African American & Black

Full Length, Drama

Chararcters: 13 male (10 black, 3 white)

Unit Set

In a Louisiana army camp in 1944 Capt. Taylor, the white C.O., has a problem. He commands a black company whose sergeant has been murdered. He is worried the murderer may be a white officer or the local Klan. A black captain is assigned to investigate and Taylor tries to discourage him because he feels the assigning of a black investigator means the case is to be swept under the rug. Capt. Davenport perseveres and, as he probes deeper, he finds the black soldiers are as corrupted with hatred as the...

Winner, 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
Winner, 2012 Tony Award for Best Play
Winner, 1974 National Book Award for Philosophy and Religion

In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry s "A Raisin in the Sun" energized the conversation about how Americans live together across lines of race and difference. In Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun, Rebecca Ann Rugg and Harvey Young bring together four contemporary plays including 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Drama winner "Clybourne Park" that, in their engagement with Hansberry s play, illuminate the tensions and anxieties that still surround neighborhood...

"Vivid and uplifting... pure poetry... remarkable "--Time

"A symphonic composition with a rich lode of humanity running through it."--Los Angeles Times

"There are always and only two trains running.
There is life and there is death.
Each of us rides them both.
To live life with dignity,
to celebrate and accept responsibility
for your presence in the world
is all that can be...

"Wings Over the Virgin Islands" is the third and final installment in the Caribbean series by Aisha Banks. It's a brilliant blend of gritty inner city and tranquil island life styles that forces its characters to wrestle with personal integrity and lasting values. Challenging, not at all predictable, heart-warming to the very last word.

Aisha's novels reflect her love for and many years living in the Virgin Islands. While residing in St. Thomas, she served as camera operator and producer of the CBS morning television program, "AM Virgin Islands." She also...

Genre: Comedy Characters: 2f Scenery: Simple Set

Single Black Female is a two-woman show with rapid-fire comic vignettes that explore the lives of thirty-something African American middle class women as they search for love, clothes and dignity in a world that fails to recognize them amongst a parade of stereotypical images. SBF 1, an English literature professor, and SBF 2, a corporate lawyer, keep each other balanced as they face their fears of rejection, hopes for romance and reminisce about black girlhood wounds. While embodying a variety of characters, the girlfriends discuss the...

-Nottage is one of our finest playwrights, a smart, empathetic, and daring storyteller who tells a story an audience won't expect.---Time Out New York

-Lynn Nottage's work explores depths of humanness, the overlapping complexities of race, gender, culture and history--and the startling simplicity of desire--with a clear tenderness, with humor, with compassion.---Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright

In her first new play since the critically acclaimed Ruined, Lynn Nottage examines the legacy of African Americans in Hollywood in a dramatic stylistic...