The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance (Paperback)

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®: 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