This new edition provides an expanded, comprehensive history of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Including discus

Seven winners of the nation's most distinguished award for African American playwriting.

Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a Ne

"Edited by award-winning U.S. playwright William Branch, this is a landmark collection of plays addressing various aspects of the global black experience by out

August Wilson's radical and provocative call to arms.