Drama

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959. Indeed Lorraine Hansberry's...

Japanese No drama is one of the great art forms that has fascinated people throughout the world. The late Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's outstanding post-war writers, infused new life into the form by using it for plays that preserve the style and inner...

A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter. WE SEE EACH OTHER is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning,...

A play about the imagined fault line between black and white lives by Claudia Rankine, the author of CitizenThe White Card stages a conversation that is both informed and derailed by the black/white American drama. The scenes in this one-act play, for...

Eva, who thinks she is a white girl, is surprised at the age of fifteen when she is told that she is black and she will be leaving the plantation she called home for years in order to do a job by the man and woman she thought was her parents, just to...

Vanessa is a beautiful, young woman with a bright, and promising future. She's never known love until she meets Eric, who sweeps her off of her feet. But is he the man of her dreams, or the monster of her nightmares? In a blink of an eye, Vanessa finds...

With looks, money and success, Suga seems to have it all. Suga suffers from anxiety attacks after discovering her mother's dead body as a teenager. With her father in prison, she is raised by her uncle. She let down her guard and marries, Marlon, the...

Growing up can be hard. Life can be hard! I Think I Will Just Be Me is a story about a boy named Brennan, growing up to learn that we all have choices to make-choices about what we eat, where we go, and how to navigate scary things. The best option: be...

By the time of her death, at the tragically young age of thirty-four, Lorraine Hansberry had created two electrifying masterpieces of the American theater. With A Raisin in the Sun, Hansberry gave this country its most movingly authentic portrayal of...

Follow the heartwarming journey of a three-week-old orphaned cheetah in the Southern African country of Namibia. Meet her friends and share her experiences as a young cheetah. Learn about the decision that is made about her future life as an adult...

Tony was born and raised in one of the most notorious ghettos in the island of Jamaica, a place called Tivoli Gardens in Kingston, Jamaica.His father, Fitzy, was one of the area leaders and therefore was labeled a don. Because of this fact, Tony was...

Erin didn't need any more complications in her life after a bloody tragedy in the family left her in charge of her baby brother--but then he showed up. Erin Cooper has no idea what she's in for when Capone Delgato walks into the room with an air of...