Black Authors

A long-running success of the 1968/69 Off-Broadway season. Fast paced, powerful, touching and hilarious, this kaleidoscope of constantly shifting s...

Drama / 7m, 3f, 1 boy / Int. This groundbreaking play starred Sidney Poitier, Claudia McNeill, Ruby Dee and Diana Sands in the Broadway production ...

New Revised Version 5 black m, 3 white m, 2 white f, 1 black f, 6 extras including 1 child Unit set Best American play of 1970, Les Blancs propheti...

"Anyone who has ever wondered what it really means to be Black will find the answer in this book."--MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE To Be Young, Gifted and Bla...

This is the probing, hilarious and provocative story of Sidney, a disenchanted Greenwich Village intellectual, his wife Iris, an aspiring actress, ...

""Never before has so much of the truth of black people's lives been shown on the stage in the entire history of the American theatre,"" James Ba...

"Never before, the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed Jam...

Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B....