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The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre , pp. 334 - 336
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A Raisin in the Sun (Hansberry), xviii, xix, xx, 8, 59, 61, 75, 79, 119, 126, 129, 131, 136, 137, 223, 227, 228, 259, 268, 300
A Strange Loop (Jackson), xxi, 317, 318, 330, 331
Abyssinia (Williams/Walker), 51, 61, 64, 66–70
Adkins, Keith Josef, 286, 297
African Grove. See African Theatre
Aidoo, Ama Ata, 244, 255
Aiken, George L., 44, 56
Ailey, Alvin, 317, 319, 320, 326, 331
Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death (Van Peebles), xix, 12, 157, 159, 163, 165, 166, 167, 168, 172, 175
Aldridge, Ira, xvii, 3, 5, 28, 33, 41, 55, 62, 81, 103
America Play, The (Parks), 178, 189–191, 193, 196, 257, 280
American Negro Theatre, xiii, xviii, 109, 125
Anderson, Christina, 14, 301, 310, 313, 315
Anita Bush Stock Company, xviii, 11, 107
Anthony, Trey, 239, 253
Aptheker, Herbert, 35, 52, 53
Bailey, Maxine, 245, 255
Baldwin, James, 14, 129, 130, 137, 300, 301, 313, 314
Bandana Land (Williams/Walker), 51, 61, 64, 66, 70, 71, 83
Baraka, Amiri, ix, xii, xix, 8, 12, 13, 15, 130, 137, 138, 139, 151, 153, 154–157, 160, 162, 174, 179, 213, 236, 240–242, 252, 262, 280, 284, 291, 298, 319
Barnes, Aziza, 14, 301, 305, 308, 313, 315
Being Forty (Spence), 120
Best, Stephen, 19, 30
Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 37, 62
Bird, Robert Montgomery, 40, 54
Black Arts Movement, ix, xix, 7, 9, 12, 113, 130, 138–140, 145, 146, 147, 149, 151–157, 174, 179, 194, 284, 291, 292, 297, 299, 319, 332
Black Arts Repertory and School, xix, 138, 145, 146, 148, 152
Black Fire, 153, 156
Black Lives Matter, i, x, xx, 1, 14, 283–285, 287, 289, 291, 292, 294, 296, 297, 298
Black Panther Party, xix, 152
Black Power Movement, 152, 156
BLKS (Barnes), 14, 301, 305, 308, 309, 310, 315
Blue Blood (Johnson), 89, 90
Blues for Mr. Charlie (Baldwin), 130
Bluest Eye, The (Diamond), 12, 101, 178, 186, 187, 188, 191, 193, 196
Bonner, Marita, 86
Bootycandy (O’Hara), 14, 301, 305, 307, 315
Brer Soul (Van Peebles), 164, 165, 175
Bridgforth, Sharon, 239
Brother/Sister Plays (McCraney), 249, 256, 257, 279
Brothers Size, The (McCraney), 250, 256
Brown, Camille A., 14, 317, 319, 324–326, 330, 333
Brown, Carlyle, 244, 255
Brown, John, 44, 45, 47, 52
Brown, Ronald K., 325
Brown, William Alexander, xvii, 3, 6, 24, 103
Brown, William Wells, 20, 31, 56
Bullins, Ed, 149, 151, 152, 156, 272
Bulrusher (Davis), 13, 274, 275–279, 281, 282
Burleigh, Harry T., 65
Burrill, Mary P., 86, 293
Césaire, Aimé, 13, 240–242, 247, 248, 254, 256
Childress, Alice, xxi, 11, 13, 119–121, 124, 136, 223, 224, 225, 229, 231
Choir Boy (McCraney), 14, 301, 302, 304, 305, 314, 315, 317, 324, 328, 329, 333
Christophe, King of Hayti, 41, 42, 55
Civil Rights Movement, 9, 53, 101, 119, 139, 151, 160, 275, 284, 286
Clark, VèVè, 238
Cleaver, Eldridge, 152
Cole, Bob, 7, 64, 65
Color Struck (Hurston), 92, 93, 94
Cook, Will Marion, 64–66, 70, 82
Dance Theatre of Harlem, 320
Davis, Eisa, 13, 267, 273, 274, 279, 281
Davis, Ossie, 125, 199
Day of Absence (Ward), xi, 178, 183–186, 188, 193, 195
Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, The (Parks), 144
Dee, Ruby, 125
Diamond, Lydia, xx, 12, 129, 178, 187, 196, 217
Dilemma of a Ghost (Aidoo), 244, 255
Drinking Gourd, The (Hansberry), 133, 137, 231
Du Bois, Shirley Graham Du Bois, 13, 223, 224, 226, 229
Du Bois, W. E. B., xvii, xviii, 7, 11, 15, 31, 48, 57, 87, 108, 117, 121, 122, 135, 138, 200, 208, 223, 224, 226, 231, 232, 252, 259, 280, 282
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 65, 66, 82, 97, 98, 138
Dunbar-Nelson, Alice, 57, 86, 101, 120
Dunham, Katherine, 209, 317, 318, 325, 327
Dutchman (Baraka), 12, 130, 138–141, 143, 147, 150, 154, 155, 179, 194, 196, 236, 240–242, 252, 254
Ellison, Ralph, xviii, 185, 195, 259
Embodying Black Experience (Young), i, xiv, 57, 272, 281
Emperor Jones (Jones), xviii, 60, 80, 88, 100, 106, 114, 117, 247, 256, 260
Ethiopian Art Theatre of Chicago, xviii, 107
Fanon, Frantz, 240
Federal Theatre Project, xviii, 11, 115, 149
Fences (Wilson), xiv, xix, xx, 144, 263, 265, 280
Fool’s Errand (Spence), 49, 57, 109, 121, 136
for colored girls (Shange), xix, 208, 209, 210, 211, 239, 253, 254, 330
Forbes, Kamilah, 239, 253
Forrest, Edwin, 41, 47
Free Southern Theater, 200, 213
Free Southern Theatre, 152
Funnyhouse of a Negro (Kennedy), 12, 178–184, 186, 193, 194, 195, 223, 228, 240, 242, 254, 271
Gardley, Marcus, 267, 273, 287
Garth Fagan, xi, 14, 317, 319–321, 324, 332
Gavitt’s Original Ethiopian Serenaders, 16, 30
Gilpin, Charles, xviii, 11, 80, 106, 114
Giovanni’s Room (Baldwin), 300, 301
Gold through the Trees (Childress), 125, 223, 225, 226, 229, 231
Goodwin, Idris, 285, 291, 294, 298, 299
Gregory, T. Montgomery, 87, 104, 112, 117, 118, 122, 237
Grimké, Angelina Weld, xviii, 11, 85, 100, 101, 111, 117, 293
Hansberry, Lorraine, xi, xii, xviii, 8, 11, 13, 14, 61, 75, 119, 120, 124, 128, 130, 135–137, 218, 223, 224, 226, 229, 231, 259, 268, 300, 313, 314
Harlem Renaissance, i, ix, xviii, 11, 31, 52, 60, 80, 85–89, 91, 95, 96, 99–101, 105, 109, 113, 116, 117, 118, 120, 122, 135, 138, 152, 200, 232, 236, 237, 284, 293, 297
Harlem Suitcase Company, 11
Herskovits, Melville, 232, 236, 253
Hewlett, James, 41, 62, 103
Heyward, DuBose, 62, 260
Hip Hop Junction Theatre, 239, 253
How I Learned What I Learned (Wilson), 264
How to Catch Creation (Anderson), 14, 301, 310, 312, 315
Howard University Players, 88, 112–114, 118, 237
Hughes, Langston, xi, xviii, xix, 11, 52, 59–62, 71, 72, 79–84, 86, 94, 101, 111, 112, 114, 118, 120, 125, 247, 256, 277, 282
Hurston, Zora Neale, xi, 11, 72, 86, 93, 95, 114, 120
Ijames, James, xxi, 285, 292
In Dahomey (Williams/Walker), xvii, 51, 60, 61, 63, 66–71, 82, 83
Insurrection
Holding History (O, 273
Jacobs-Jenkins, Branden, 13, 270, 273, 281
Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Wilson), 13, 238, 253, 262, 266
Johnson, Georgia Douglas, xviii, 11, 52, 86–89, 101, 109, 120, 229, 293
Kennedy, Adrienne, x, 12, 13, 100, 177–180, 182, 184, 189, 194, 195, 223, 228, 229, 231, 240, 242, 254, 271
Kill Move Paradise (Ijames), 292, 293, 296, 298
Kim, Young Jean, 260
King Jr., Woodie, 59, 80, 149, 209
Kwei-Armah, Kwame, 245, 255
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 10, 38, 39, 45, 52, 56, 256
Las meninas (Nottage), 220, 222, 230
Leon, Kenny, xx, 217, 268, 281
Les Blancs (Hansberry), 132, 134, 137, 223, 227, 228, 229, 231
Locke, Alain, 7, 11, 31, 86, 87, 100, 104, 117, 121, 122, 237
Marita Bonner, 11, 98, 102, 121
McAllister, Marvin, 25, 41, 177, 193
McClendon, Rose, 73, 75, 79, 108, 117
McCraney, Tarell Alvin, 14, 249, 256, 257, 301, 313, 314, 315, 324, 328, 333
McDonald, Audra, 129
McIntyre, Dianne, 209, 213, 326
Miller, May, 52, 86, 98, 120, 237, 253
Morisseau, Dominique, xi, xxi, 285, 287, 291
Moscow Art Theatre, 106
Mulatto (Hughes), xviii, 61, 62, 71–77, 81, 83, 84, 92, 95, 97, 101, 277, 278, 279, 282
National Black Theatre, xix, 149, 199, 204, 206, 207, 216, 292
Neal, Larry, 138, 151, 153, 154, 156, 179, 194, 213, 296, 299
Negro Ensemble Company, xix, 149, 205
Negro Little Theatre Movement, ix, 11, 103, 104, 105, 107, 108, 110–114, 116, 121
Neighbors (Jacobs-Jenkins), 13, 270, 271, 272, 274, 281, 332
New Black Fest, The, 14, 286
New Lafayette Theatre, xix, 149, 206
Night Vision (Morisseau), 287, 288, 297
Nottage, Lynn, xi, xx, xxi, 1, 6, 13, 129, 218–220, 222, 223, 230, 245, 255, 267, 279
O’Hara, Robert, 14, 272, 279, 301, 313–316
O’Neill, Eugene, xviii, 60, 80, 106, 247, 256, 260
Obama, Barack H., xx, 3, 13, 259, 261, 262, 264
Obama, Michelle, 224
Osofisan, Femi, xiii, 209, 216
Owl Answers, The (Kennedy), 179, 194, 240, 242, 254
Parks, Suzan-Lori, x, xx, 1, 9, 12, 15, 100, 129, 138, 144, 177, 178, 189, 192, 196, 197, 217, 257, 259, 262, 280
Peebles, Melvin Van, xix, 12, 83, 157, 159, 164, 166, 167, 174, 175
Penumbra Theatre, 9, 285
Pinnock, Winsome, 244, 245, 255
Primus, Pearl, 209, 320
Riding the Goat (Miller), 237, 253
Robeson, Paul, 130, 227
Romero, Costanza, 267, 281
Ruined (Nottage), xx, 220, 221, 222, 230
Scottsboro Boys, The (Kander/Ebb), 13, 260, 268, 269, 270, 271, 273
Sears, Djanet, xx, 13, 236, 244, 252, 255
Shange, Ntozake, xix, 7, 13, 120, 121, 125, 129, 138, 154, 156, 199, 208, 209, 216, 239, 253, 254, 319, 330
Sher, Bartlett, 262, 264, 266, 280
Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, The (Hansberry), 137, 259
Simply Heavenly (Hughes), 61, 71–73, 76–79, 81, 84
Slave, The (Baraka), 30, 41, 43, 44, 56, 140, 154, 236, 240, 241, 252
Soyinka, Wole, 202, 215, 248, 256
Spence, Eulalie, 11, 86, 109, 119, 120, 135
Stick Fly (Diamond), xx, 217
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, xvii, 44, 142
Sunday Morning in the South (Johnson), 90, 229
Teer, Barbara Ann, xix, 7, 13, 149, 199, 204, 205, 208, 216
Temple, Shirley, 187, 196
The Crisis (magazine), 15, 31, 52, 58, 97, 108, 117, 121, 223, 252, 280
The Drama of King Shotaway (Brown), xvii, 103
The Mountaintop (Hall), xx, 217
The Padlock (Bickerstaffe), 62
The Piano Lesson (Wilson), xix, 239, 240, 253
The Whipping (Spence), 123, 124
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (Hansberry), 129, 131, 135
Topdog/Underdog (Parks), xx, 178, 189, 192, 193, 196
Turner, Nat, xvii, 34, 40, 42–46, 52, 53, 273
Undertow (Spence), 92, 93, 121, 122
Urban Bush Women, xii, xix, 199, 204, 212, 213, 214, 215, 331
Vesey, Denmark, 40, 45, 52
Walker, George W., 59, 63, 80
We See You White American Theatre, xx, 1, 15, 285
Wedding Band (Nottage), 126, 136
Wilkerson, Margaret, xix, 124, 130, 224, 228, 230, 231
Williams, Bert A., 60, 63, 70, 76, 79, 80, 82
Wilson, August, xii, xiii, xiv, xix, 2, 3, 9, 13, 15, 80, 108, 117, 138, 144, 153, 194, 238, 239, 253, 258, 259, 262, 263, 266, 268, 279, 280
Wine in the Wilderness (Childress), 127, 131, 136
Winfrey, Oprah, 224
Wolfe, George C., 196, 260, 305
Works Progress Administration, xviii, 115
Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo, xix, 13, 199, 212

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