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The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performancefromthe nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers, including producers, theatre managers, choreographers, directors, designers, and critics. This ambitious Companion includes:

  • A Timeline of African American theatre and performance.

  • Part I Seeing ourselves onstage explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas, Broadway musicals, and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness.

  • Part II Institution building highlights institutions

    Table of 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

    Part III: Institution Building: Making a Space of OUR Own

    Part IV: Theatre and Social Change

    Part V: Expanding the Traditional Stage

    Index

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      Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      Publication Date: 1/6/2018 12:12:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781138726710, 978-1138726710
      ISBN10: 1138726710
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performancefromthe nineteenth-century African Grove Theatre to Afrofuturism. Alongside chapters from scholars are contributions from theatre makers, including producers, theatre managers, choreographers, directors, designers, and critics. This ambitious Companion includes:

      • A Timeline of African American theatre and performance.

      • Part I Seeing ourselves onstage explores the important experience of Black theatrical self-representation. Analyses of diverse topics including historical dramas, Broadway musicals, and experimental theatre allow readers to discover expansive articulations of Blackness.

      • Part II Institution building highlights institutions

        Table of 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

        Part III: Institution Building: Making a Space of OUR Own

        Part IV: Theatre and Social Change

        Part V: Expanding the Traditional Stage

        Index

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