The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance

Contents

• List of Figures
• Editor/Contributor Biographies
• Black Art Now by Nambi E. Kelley
• Introduction: Renee Alexander Craft, Thomas F. DeFrantz. Kathy A. Perkins, and Sandra L. Richards.
• Part I: Highlights of African American Theatre and Performance
• Part II: Seeing Ourselves Onstage
• Edited and Introduced by Thomas F. DeFrantz
• Chapter 1 Dudley, The Smart Set, and the Beginning of the Black Entertainment Industry
• Nadine George-Graves
• Chapter 2 Black Theatre History Plays: Remembering, Recovering, Re-envisioning
• Sandra Mayo
• Chapter 3 "Hung Be the Heavens with Black" Bodies: An Analysis of the August 1822 Riot at William Brown's Greenwich Village Theater
• Marvin McAllister
• Chapter 4 Mulattoes, Mistresses, and Mammies: The Phantom Family in Langston Hughes's Mulatto
• Alison Walls
• Chapter 5 Interview with Woodie King, Jr. - Producer and Director
• JaMeeka Holloway-Burrell
• Chapter 6 Freedom Forward: Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry Circling Broadway in the 1950s
• Barbara Lewis
• Chapter 7 Navigating Respectability in Turn of the Century New York City: Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage
• Marta Effinger-Crichlow
• Chapter 8 Earle Hyman: Scandinavian Successes
• Baron Kelly
• Chapter 9 Pittsburgh Piety: A Century of Symbolism
• Pedro E. Alvarado
• Chapter 10 Interview with Ron Simons - Broadway Producer
• Lisa B. Thompson
• Chapter 11 Interview with Paul Tazewell - Costume Designer
• Niiamar Felder
• Chapter 12 Race on the Opera Stage
• Twila L. Perry
• Chapter 13 The Wiz and the African Diaspora Musical: Rethinking the Research Questions in Black Musical Historiography
• Sam O'Connell
• Chapter 14 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
• Chapter 15 Shuffle Along and Ethnic Humor: A Family Story
• Sandra Seaton
• Chapter 16 Interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa - Dance Critic
• Thomas F. DeFrantz
• Chapter 17 Black Female Sexuality in the Drama of Pearl Cleage
• Beth Turner
• Chapter 18 Coming-of-Age and Rituals of Gender Nonconformity in Leslie Lee's The First Breeze of Summer
• Rhone Fraser
• Chapter 19 Pomo Afro Homos: A Revolutionary Act
• Tabitha Jamie Mary Chester
• PART III: Institution Building: Making a Space of OUR Own
• Edited and Introduced by Kathy A. Perkins
• Chapter 20 Being Black on Stage and Screen: Black Actor Training Before Black Power and the Rise of Stanislavski's System
• Monica White Ndounou
• Chapter 21 Three Visionary African American Women Theatre Artists: Anita Bush, Barbara Ann Teer and Ellen Stewart
• Sandra Adell
• Chapter 22 The Birth of Queen Anne: Re-Discovering Anne Cooke at Spelman College
• Leslye Joy Allen
• Chapter 23 The Howard University Players: From Respectability Politics to Black Representation
• Denise J. Hart and Kathy A. Perkins
• Chapter 24 An African American Theatre Program for the 21st Century
• Nefertiti Burton
• Chapter 25 Interview with Karen Allen Baxter - Managing Director of Rites and Reason Theatre
• Jasmine Johnson
• Chapter 26 The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc.: One Moment in Time?
• Susan Watson Turner
• Chapter 27 Interview with Shirley Prendergast - Lighting Designer
• Kathy A. Perkins
• Chapter 28 Interview with Femi Sarah Heggie - Stage Manager
• Kathy A. Perkins
• Chapter 29 Weathering the Winds of Change: The Sustainability of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company
• Gregory S. Carr
• Chapter 30 The National Black Theatre Festival and the "Marvtastic" Legacy of Larry Leon Hamlin
• J. K. Curry
• Chapter 31 The Black Feminist Theatre of Glenda Dickerson
• Khalid Yaya Long
• Chapter 32 Ernie McClintock's Jazz Acting: A Theatre of Common Sense
• Elizabeth M. Cizmar
• Chapter 33 Black Acting Methods (R): Mapping the Movement
• Sharrell D. Luckett
• Chapter 34 Financial Fitness of Black Theatres: Roundtable of Artistic Directors
• K. Zaheerah Sultan
• Chapter 35 A Reflection on The University of Arkansas Pine Bluff's The Hip Hop Project: Insight into the Hip Hop Generation
• Johnny Jones
• Chapter 36 Interview with Ekundayo Bandele - Founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre
• Shondrika Moss-Bouldin
• PART IV: THEATRE AND SOCIAL CHANGE
• Edited and Introduced by Sandra L. Richards
• Chapter 37 W.E.B. DuBois, Dramatist
• FREDA SCOTT GILES
• Chaper 38
• The Third Gift of the Negro: Muslim Identity and DuBois' Star of Ethiopia
• CRISTAL CHANELLE TRUSCOTT
• Chapter 39 Oh, Ma Dear! What's Going On?: Staging Angelina W. Grimke's Rachel in the Wake of Black Lives Matter
• NICOLE HODGES PERSLEY
• Chapter 40 Leaning Left: Why Theater Artists in the 1930s Were Attracted to the Red Movement
• KIMMIKA L. H. WILLIAMS-WITHERSPOON
• Chapter 41 Fighting Fire with Fire: Violence and the Black Liberation Movement
• PORTIA OWUSU
• Chapter 42 "When We Gonna Rise": Free Southern Theater Performances of Slave Ship and Black Power in Mississippi
• Susan Stone-Lawrence
• Chapter 43 From "Poemplays" to Ritualistic Revivals: The Experimental Works of Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement
• LA DONNA L. FORSGREN
• Chapter 44 Interview with Micki Grant
• KATHY A. PERKINS
• Chapter 45 Keeping His Gloves Up: August Wilson and His Critics
• Sandra G. Shannon
• Chapter 46 Interview with Edward Everett Haynes, Jr.
• KATHY A. PERKINS
• Chapter 47 Afro-Latinx Themes in Theatre Today
• Daphnie Sicre
• Chapter 48 To be Young, Performing, and Black: Situating Youth in African American Theatre and Performance History
• Asantewa Fulani Sunni-Ali
• Chapter 49 Interview with Mama Kariamu Welsh
• Amoaba Gooden
• Chapter 50 Robert O'Hara's Defamiliarizing Dramaturgy
• Isaiah MATTHEW Wooden
• Chapter 51 Black Plight in Flight
• Tezeru Teshome
• Chapter 52 Creatively Censoring African American Drama While Teaching in the Arab Gulf Region
• PhyLlisa smith Deroze
• Chapter 53 Mike Wiley: A Multi-Faceted Artist on a Mission for Social Change
• Sonny Kelly
• Chapter 54 "Locked Away But Not Defeated": African American Women Performing Resilience
• Lori D. Barcliff Baptista
• Chapter 55 A Hundredfold: An Experiential Archive of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, the Opera.
• Alexis Pauline Gumbs
• PART V: Expanding the Traditional Stage
• Edited and Introduced by Renee Alexander Craft
• Chapter 56 Many Stories/One Body: Black Solo Performance from Vaudeville to Spoken Word
• E. Patrick Johnson
• Chapter 57 Standing Up: Black Feminist Comedy in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries
• Katelyn Hale Wood
• Chapter 58 My Name Mudbone: What I learned about playwriting from Richard Pryor
• Howard L. Craft
• Chapter 59 Ntozake Shange and the Choreopoem
• Nicole M. Morris Johnson
• Chapter 60 Interview with Donna Walker-Kuhne - Audience Development
• Kathy A. Perkins
• Chapter 61 Performed Ethnography
• D. Soyini Madison
• Chapter 62 The United States of Lucia: Three Generations of Haitian-Americans Reconfigure Ancestry, Home and Host Lands through Storytelling
• Mario LaMothe
• Chapter 63 We Were What No One Else Had
• Rikki Byrd
• Chapter 64 Interview with Pam Green - Artist Management and Consulting
• Melanie Greene
• Chapter 65 Sidelong Glances: Black Divas in Transit, 1945-1955
• Katherine Zien
• Chapter 66 Black Indians of New Orleans: Performing Resistance and Remembrance
• Sascha Just
• Chapter 67 Interview with Darryl Montana- Black Indian Chief and Master Artisan
• Loyce L. Arthur
• Chapter 68 African Performance in the Feast of St. Francis Xavier in 17th century Luanda, Angola
• Margit Edwards
• Chapter 69 Afro-Futurism and the 2018 Wakanda Diaspora Carnival
• Renee Alexander Craft
• Chapter 70 A Beginner's Guide to Implementing Hip Hop Theatre in the Classroom
• Kashi Johnson
• Chapter 71 Interview with Shirley Basfield Dunlap - Educator and Director
• Eric Ruffin
• Index