Lena McPhatter Gore

The African American Theatre Directory, 1816-1960

A Comprehensive Guide to Early Black Theatre Organizations, Companies, Theatres, and Performing Groups

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Produktbeschreibung

A comprehensive directory of more than 600 entries, this detailed ready reference features professional, semi-professional, and academic stage organizations and theatres that have been in the forefront in pioneering most of the advances that African Americans have made in the theatre. It includes groups from the early 19th century to the dawn of the revolutionary Black theatre movement of the 1960s. It is an effort to bring together into one volume information that has hitherto been scattered throughout a number of different sources. The volume begins with an illuminating foreword by Errol Hill, a noted critic, playwright, scholar and Willard Professor of Drama Emeritus, Dartmouth College. A comprehensive directory of more than 600 entries, this detailed ready reference features professional, semi-professional, and academic stage organizations and theatres that have been in the forefront in pioneering most of the advances that African Americans have made in the theatre. It includes groups from the early 19th century to the dawn of the revolutionary Black theatre movement of the 1960s. It is an effort to bring together into one volume information that has hitherto been scattered throughout a number of different sources. The volume begins with an illuminating foreword by Errol Hill, a noted critic, playwright, scholar and Willard Professor of Drama Emeritus, Dartmouth College. Included in the volume are the earliest organizations that existed before the Civil War, Black minstrel troupes, pioneer musical show companies, selected vaudeville and road show troupes, professional theatrical associations, booking agencies, stock companies, significant amateur and little theatre groups, Black units of the WPA Federal Theatre, and semi-professional groups in Harlem after the Federal Theatre. The A-Z entries are supplemented with a classified appendix that also includes additional organizations not listed in the main directory, a bibliography, and three indexes for shows, showpeople, and general subjects. Cross referencing makes related information easy to find.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 665g
• ISBN-13: 9780313295379
• ISBN-10: 0313295379
• Artikelnr.: 21269737

Autorenporträt

BERNARD L. PETERSON, JR., is Professor Emeritus of English and Drama at Elizabeth City State University. He is the author of Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays (1988), Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers (1990), and A Century of Musicals in Black and White (1993), all of which were published by Greenwood Press. He is currently completing a directory of African Americans in the theatre, 1820-1960s (forthcoming from Greenwood Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Errol Hill Preface Contributors and Research Consultants The
African American Theatre Directory Appendix A: Alphabetical List of
Black-Oriented and Black-Controlled Theatres, Halls, and Performance Spaces
Appendix B: Classification of Black Theatre Organizations, Companies, and
Performing Groups by Type Information Sources Index of Names Index of
Organizations and Theatres Index of Show Titles