American - African American & Black
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Mlima’s Tale
$15.95 Add to cart“A beautiful, endlessly echoing portrait of a murder and its afterlife. Ms. Nottage shaped this story with such theatrical inventiveness and discipline that it never feels sensational… A finely wrou
- Author: Nottage, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1559365994
- Language: English
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A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay
$9.99 Add to cartUnder the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B. Wilkerson and a commentary by Spike Lee, this comple… [more below]
- Author: Hansberry, Lorraine
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0451183886
- Language: English
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Is God Is / What to Send Up When It Goes Down
$16.95 Add to cart“Furious and incandescent… Harris writes so blisteringly that the actors could just let the language’s flames carry them along.” –Helen Shaw, Time Out New York on Is God Is
An explosive epic that ex
- Author: Harris, Aleshea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 161
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1559369639
- Language: English
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Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play
$16.00 Add to cartAn award-winning play from one of America’s most brilliant writers about a murder in a small Southern town, loosely based on the 1955 killing of Emmett Till. – “A play with fires of fury in its belly,… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Baldwin, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 1995
- ISBN10: 0679761780
- Language: English
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Caged
$9.99 Read moreAn evocative, affecting play on the horrors of mass incarceration written collaboratively by prisoners who have experienced it first-hand.
- Author: Cooperative Theater Prison Jersey New
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1642597090
- Language: English
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The America Play and Other Works
$19.95 Add to cartA collection of plays and essays by one of America’s premier playwrights. Includes the essays “Possession,” “from Elements of Style,” and “An Equation for Black People Onstage,” and the plays Impercep… [more below]
- Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1559360925
- Language: English
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Gloria (Tcg Edition)
$16.95 Add to cart“The bitingly funny and fierce Gloria is one of the year’s best shows…Gloria is an adrenaline rush of a show, but it also makes you think. Let’s just say it hits the bull’s-eye.” –Elisabeth Vincent
- Author: Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1559365455
- Language: English
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August Wilson Century Cycle
$300.00 Read moreSeries introduction by John Lahr with individual volumes introduced by Laurence Fishburne, Tony Kushner, Romulus Linney, Marion McClinton, Toni Morrison, Suzan-Lori Parks, Phylicia Rashad, Ishmael Ree
- Series: August Wilson Century Cycle
- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 10
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 155936307X
- Language: English
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Plays for the Plague Year
$19.95 Add to cartA stunning collection of plays from Pulitzer Prize-winning
playwright Suzan-Lori Parks that captures the societal rupture of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.On March 13, 2020, as theaters shut
- Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 1636701817
- Language: English
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Notes from the Field
$18.00 Add to cart“Smith’s powerful style of living journalism uses the collective, cathartic nature of the theater to move us from despair toward hope.” —The Village Voice
Anna Deavere Smith’s extraordinary form of- Author: Smith, Anna Deavere
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 0525564594
- Language: English
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Crumbs from the Table of Joy and Other Plays
$19.95 Read moreThis collection includes Lynn Nottage’s best known work, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, which has been produced widely since its premiere in May 1995 and which the Chicago Tribune hailed as “a complex
- Author: Nottage, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1559362146
- Language: English
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Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)
$16.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama
“The finest work yet from this gifted writer.”–The New York Times
Offered his freedom if he joins his master in the ranks of the Confederacy, Hero, a slave, must
- Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 23 2015
- ISBN10: 1559365005
- Language: English
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Venus
$16.95 Add to cartSuzan-Lori Parks continues her examination of black people in history and stage through the life of the so-called “Hottentot Venus,” an African woman displayed semi-nude throughout Europe due to her e… [more below]
- Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1559361352
- Language: English
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Radio Golf
$15.95 Read more“The concluding work in one of the most ambitious dramatic projects ever undertaken . . . a play that could well be Mr. Wilson’s most provocative.”–Ben Brantley, The New York Times
“Radio Golf is a ri
- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1559363088
- Language: English
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Trouble in Mind
$15.95 Add to cart“A masterpiece . . . Trouble in Mind still contains astonishing power; it could have been written yesterday.” —Vulture
Ahead of its time, Trouble in Mind, written in 1955, follows the rehearsal proces… [more below]
- Series: Illuminations
- Author: Childress, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1636700152
- Language: English
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Slave Play
$16.95 Add to cart“The single most daring thing I’ve seen in a theater in a long time.” — Wesley Morris, New York Times
The Old South lives on at the MacGregor Plantation–in the breeze, in the cotton fields…and in
- Author: Harris, Jeremy O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 04 2020
- ISBN10: 1559369787
- Language: English
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The Red Letter Plays
$19.95 Add to cart“In the Blood is an extraordinary new play…It is truly harrowing…we cannot turn away, and we do not want to. The play strikes us as Hawthorne claimed his first glimpse of the scarlet letter struck… [more below]
- Author: Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1559361956
- Language: English
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A Soldier’s Play
$17.00 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 1982
A black sergeant cries out in the night, “They still hate you,” then is shot twice and falls dead. Set in 1944 at Fort Neal, a segregated army camp in Loui- Series: Dramabook
- Author: Fuller, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01 1982
- ISBN10: 0374521484
- Language: English
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Gem of the Ocean
$15.95 Add to cart“No one except perhaps Eugene O’Neill and Tennessee Williams has aimed so high and achieved so much in the American theater.”–John Lahr, The New Yorker
“A swelling battle hymn of transporting beauty.
- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1559362804
- Language: English
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Two Trains Running
$15.00 Add to cartFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a “vivid and uplifting” (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary.
August Wilson established hims… [more below]- Series: Drama, Plume
- Author: Wilson, August
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0452269296
- Language: English
