Drama

From the Marrow collects nine ritual/jazz performance texts by SharonBridgforth, including lovve/rituals & rage, no mo blues, dyke/warrior-prayers, blood pudding, con flama, love conjure/blues, delta dandi, River See, and dat Black Mermaid Man Lady/The...

In a society where the Black male body is both vilified and sexualized, Black Boys uncovers the complex dynamics of the queer Black male experience. Text, movement, and design portray the rhythm and vulnerability of three very different Black men who...

Wanda Wary, a black orphan, is a senior at Knute County Consolidated High School, class of 1955, in predominately white Western Kansas. Her work/study program has her in school every morning and working as a nurse's aide at a rest home in the afternoons...

Leo, Misha, Ralph, and Dawn are old friends. The two couples have a lot in common--good educations, progressive politics, a taste for culture. But when a racially motivated incident with the cops leaves Leo shaken, he decides he must take extreme...

Inspired by the 15th century morality play Everyman, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new work follows Everybody (played by one of five actors selected by lottery at the beginning of each performance) as he or she travels down a road toward life's greatest...

A boldly theatrical time travel epic from one of the premier chroniclers of Black gay life in the American theatre.In Robert O'Hara's stunning debut play, gay Black grad student Ron is transported back in time with his 189-year-old...

The fourth title in TCG Books' Illuminations series is a thrilling drama that examines the pressures racism exerts both in the streets and in the newsrooms that cover them.Rookie journalist Yvonne arrives at her first big-city newspaper job determined to...

A hauntingly surreal play that plumbs the depths of a group of close friends reuniting for the first time in decades.Twenty years after graduating from a Catholic academy in Washington, DC, a group of old friends gathers on a porch to pregame their high...

An uproarious play comprised of vignettes that deftly satirize post-"post-racial" America.Jordan E. Cooper's Ain't No Mo' is a hilarious satirical odyssey that needles post-Obama racial realities of life in the U.S. The time is the near future, and a...

Includes Revised Broadway version of AppropriateA double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent...

What does it mean to be in a place and out of place at the same time? Gabrielle Civil explores this question by making black feminist performance art in Mexico. She asks unsuspecting Mexicans if they have good hair, visits legendary black expatriate...