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Black Theatre, USA: Plays By African Americans: The Recent Period, 1935-Today

This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selections.This collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996.

Paperback: 528 pages

Publisher: Free Press; Rev Exp edition (March 1, 1996)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0684823071

ISBN-13: 978-0684823072

Product Dimensions: 7 x 1.6 x 10 inches

Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)

Best Sellers Rank: #310,176 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #99 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Dramas & Plays > Anthologies #113 in Books > Literature & Fiction > African American > Dramas & Plays #174 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Genres & Styles > Drama

This anthology contain a wealth of plays written by black playwrights. While looking for less familiar plays to produce with a primary minority theatre group, I stumbled upon this gem. Within its pages, I was able to find several plays and playwrights I had never heard of before. I enjoyed reading these plays and were able to find works to produce. The plays also provided less known monologes for auditions. Additionally, the various plays provided ample selections of scenes for scene study work. Although some pieces are dated, they are good clasical "Black" pieces. The more modern plays in the anthology date back to 1960's. Never- the- less, it's a good find and a must for my theatre library.

Great selection of stories, font size just almost too small however in the double column pages but I can deal with it. And like always, all plays have the author background information.

I purchased this book as text for my Black Culture class in College. In addition to reading assigned plays, I find myself reading others. The plays by Langston Hughes, Alice Childress & Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) to name a few are awesome, historical continuums.

I love this book. I actually purchased it for my daughter, who lost several important books. My brother is one of the authors in this book, so she was very happy to receive this as one of her Christmas gifts!

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