The Colored Museum

The Colored Museum

Author: George C. Wolfe

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 9780802130488

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Eleven sketches, "exhibits" in the Colored Museum, offer a humorous and irreverent look at slavery, Black cuisine, soldiers, family life, performers, and parties.


The Colored Museum

The Colored Museum

Author: George C. Wolfe

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780822224341

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THE STORY: THE COLORED MUSEUM has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. Its eleven exhibits undermine black stereotypes old and new and return


Spunk

Spunk

Author: Chic Street Man

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9780822217558

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THE STORY: Hurston's evocative prose and Wolfe's unique theatrical style blend to create an evening of theatre that celebrates the human spirit's ability to overcome and endure. Utilizing the blues, choral narrative and dance, the three tales focus


Jelly's Last Jam

Jelly's Last Jam

Author: George C. Wolfe

Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781559360692

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Dramatizes the life of Jelly Roll Morton, pianist, composer, and self-proclaimed inventor of jazz.


Too Heavy for Your Pocket

Too Heavy for Your Pocket

Author: Jiréh Breon Holder

Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 0822238462

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In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders are embarking on a courageous journey into the Deep South. When twenty-year-old Bowzie Brandon gives up a life-changing college scholarship to join the movement, he’ll have to convince his loved ones—and himself—that shaping his country’s future might be worth jeopardizing his own.


Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun

Reimagining A Raisin in the Sun

Author: Rebecca Ann Rugg

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2012-04-15

Total Pages: 465

ISBN-13: 0810128136

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This book is a collection of four contemporary plays that reflect the themes of racial and cultural difference of Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun.


For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

For colored girls who have considered suicide/When the rainbow is enuf

Author: Ntozake Shange

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-11-02

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 1451624158

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The “extraordinary and wonderful” award-winning play in a new edition featuring an additional poem, production photos, and an introduction by Jesmyn Ward (The New York Times). From its inception in California in 1974 to its Broadway revival in 2022, the Obie Award–winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf has excited, inspired, and transformed audiences all over the country. Passionate and fearless, Shange’s words reveal what it meant to be a woman of color in the 20th century—and they continue to ring true in the 21st. First published in 1975, it was praised by The New Yorker for “encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had”. This new edition celebrates the play’s enduring legacy with introductions by Jesmyn Ward and Broadway director Camille A. Brown. It also features a poem not previously included in the text, and a selection of photos capturing the play’s evolution and reinvention.


Black Thunder

Black Thunder

Author: William B. Branch

Publisher: Signet Book

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 564

ISBN-13:

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This anthology of nine contemporary plays (all produced between 1975 and 1990) actively confronts the racial realities of American culture and celebrates the African American experience with originality and meaning. Playwrights include George C. Wolfe, Leslie Lee, Steve Carter, Amiri Baraka, P.J. Gibson, William Branch, Alexander Simmons, Ed Bullins, and August Wilson.