Includes index.

Black art now / by Nambi E. Kelley Introduction / Renee Alexander Craft, Thomas F. DeFrantz. Kathy A. Perkins, and Sandra L. Richards Highlights of African American theatre and performance Seeing ourselves onstage / edited and Introduced by Thomas F. DeFrantz Dudley, the smart set, and the beginning of the Black entertainment industry / Nadine George-Graves Black theatre history plays : remembering, recovering, re-envisioning / Sandra Mayo "Hung be the heavens with black" bodies : an analysis of the August 1822 riot at William Brown's Greenwich Village theater / Marvin McAllister Mulattoes, mistresses, and mammies : the phantom family in Langston Hughes's Mulatto / Alison Walls Interview with Woodie King, Jr., producer and director / Jameeka Holloway-Burrell Freedom forward : Alice Childress and Lorraine Hansberry circling Broadway in the 1950s / Barbara Lewis Navigating respectability in turn of the century New York City : intimate apparel by Nynn Nottage / Marta Effinger-Crichlow Earle Hyman : Scandinavian successes / Baron Kelly Pittsburgh piety : a century of symbolism / Pedro E. Alvarado Interview with Ron Simons, Broadway producer / Lisa B. Thompson Interview with Paul Tazewell, costume designer / Niiamar Felder Race on the opera stage / Twila L. Perry The Wiz and the African diaspora musical : rethinking the research questions in Black musical historiography / Sam O'Connell 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 Shuffle Along and ethnic humor : a family story / Sandra Seaton Interview with Eva Yaa Asantewaa, dance critic / Thomas F. Defrantz Black female sexuality in the drama of Pearl Cleage / Beth Turner Coming-of-age and rituals of gender nonconformity in Leslie Lee's The first breeze of summer / Rhone Fraser Pomo afro homos : a revolutionary act / Tabitha Jamie Mary Chester Institution building : making a space of our own / edited and Introduced by Kathy A. Perkins Being black on stage and screen : black actor training before black power and the rise of Stanislavski's system / Monica White Ndounou Visionary African American women theatre artists : Anita Bush, Barbara Ann Teer and Ellen Stewart / Sandra Adell The birth of Queen Anne : re-discovering Anne Cooke at Spelman College / Leslye Joy Allen The Howard University Players : from respectability politics to Black representation / Denise J. Hart and Kathy A. Perkins An African American theatre program for the 21st century / Nefertiti Burton Interview with Karen Allen Baxter, managing director of Rites and Reason theatre / Jasmine Johnson The Negro Ensemble Company, Inc. : one moment in time? / Susan Watson Turner Interview with Shirley Prendergast, lighting designer / Kathy A. Perkins Interview with Femi Sarah Heggie, stage manager / Kathy A. Perkins Weathering the winds of change : the sustainability of the St. Louis Black Repertory Company / Gregory S. Carr The National Black Theatre Festival and the "marvtastic" legacy of Larry Leon Hamlin / J. K. Curry The Black feminist theatre of Glenda Dickerson / Khalid Yaya Long Ernie McClintock's jazz acting : a theatre of common sense / Elizabeth M. Cizmar Black acting methods® : mapping the movement / Sharrell D. Luckett Financial fitness of Black theatres : roundtable of artistic directors / K. Zaheerah Sultan A reflection on the University of Arkansas Pine Bluff's The hip hop project : insight into the hip hop generation / Johnny Jones Interview with Ekundayo Bandele, founder and CEO of Hattiloo Theatre / Shondrika Moss-Bouldin --

Theatre and social change / edited and Introduced by Sandra L. Richards W.E.B. Dubois, dramatist / Freda Scott Giles The third gift of the Negro : Muslim identity and Dubois' Star of Ethiopia / Cristal Chanelle Truscott Oh, ma dear! What's going on? : staging Angelina W. Grimke's Rachel in the wake of Black Lives Matter / Nicole Hodges Persley Leaning left : why theater artists in the 1930s were attracted to the Red movement / Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon Fighting fire with fire : violence and the Black liberation movement / Portia Owusu "When we gonna rise" : Free Southern Theater performances of Slave ship and Black power in Mississippi / Susan Stone-Lawrence From "poemplays" to ritualistic revivals : the experimental works of women dramatists of the Black arts movement / La Donna L. Forsgren Interview with Micki Grant / Kathy A. Perkins Keeping his gloves up : August Wilson and his critics / Sandra G. Shannon Interview with Edward Everett Haynes, Jr. / Kathy A. Perkins Afro-Latinx themes in theatre today / Daphnie Sicre To be young, performing, and black : situating youth in African American theatre and performance history / Astanewa Fulani Sunni-Ali Interview with Mama Kariamu Welsh / Amoaba Gooden Robert O'Hara's defamiliarizing dramaturgy / Isaiah Matthew Wooden Black plight in flight / Tezeru Teshome Creatively censoring African American drama while teaching in the Arab Gulf region / Phyllisa Smith Deroze Mike Wiley : a multi-faceted artist on a mission for social change / Sonny Kelly "Locked away but not defeated" : African American women performing resilience / Lori D. Barcliff Baptista A hundredfold : an experiential archive of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower, the opera / Alexis Pauline Gimbs Expanding the traditional stage / edited and Introduced by Renée Alexander Craft Many stories/one body : Black solo performance from vaudeville to spoken word / E. Patrick Johnson Standing up : Black feminist comedy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Katelyn Hale Wood My name Mudbone : what i learned about playwriting from Richard Pryor / Howard L. Craft Ntozake Shange and the choreopoem / Nicole M. Morris Johnson Interview with Donna Walker-Kuhne, audience development / Kathy A. Perkins Performed ethnography / D. Soyini Madison The United States of Lucia : three generations of Haitian-Americans reconfigure ancestry, home and host lands through storytelling / Mario Lamothe We were what no one else had / Rikki Byrd Interview with Pam Green, artist management and consulting / Melanie Greene Sidelong glances : Black divas in transit, 1945-1955 / Katherine Zien Black Indians of New Orleans : performing resistance and remembrance / Sascha Just Interview with Darryl Montana, Black Indian chief and master artisan / Loyce L. Arthur African performance in the Feast of St. Francis Xavier in 17th century Luanda, Angola / Margot Edwards Afro-futurism and the 2018 Wakanda diaspora carnival / Renée Alexander Craft A beginner's guide to implementing hip hop theatre in the classroom / Kashi Johnson Interview with Shirley Basfield Dunlap, educator and director / Eric Ruffin.