29/07/2020
Are you looking for more Black playwrights to read? Are you a fan of lists? Well, here you go: This is the list of plays we're reading in the department's summer play discussion group. It's a good mix of canonical and contemporary plays, so there's something for everyone! Comment with your personal favorites, whether they're on this list or not!
Amiri Baraka, SLAVE SHIP
Aziza Barnes, BLKS
Alice Childress, WINE IN THE WILDERNESS
Lydia Diamond, STICK FLY
Jackie Sibblies Drury, FAIRVIEW
debbie tucker green, ear for eye
Lorraine Hansberry, A RAISIN IN THE SUN
Aleshea Harris, WHAT TO SEND UP WHEN IT GOES DOWN
Langston Hughes, MULATTO
Zora Neale Hurston, COLOR STRUCK
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, AN OCTOROON
Adrienne Kennedy, FUNNYHOUSE OF A NEGRO
Tarell Alvin McCraney, CHOIR BOY
Dominique Morisseau, PIPELINE
Lynn Nottage, SWEAT
Antoinette Nwandu, PASS OVER
Robert O’Hara, INSURRECTION: HOLDING HISTORY
Dael Orlandersmith, YELLOWMAN
Suzan-Lori Parks, IN THE BLOOD
Ntozake Shange, for colored girls who have considered su***de when the rainbow is enuf
Anna Deavere Smith, TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992
Douglas Turner Ward, DAY OF ABSENCE
August Wilson, THE PIANO LESSON
George C. Wolfe, THE COLORED MUSEUM