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Plays and Dramas By Black Americans

  1. A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
  2. Fences (The Century Cycle, #6) by August Wilson
  3. The Piano Lesson by August Wilson
  4. Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson
  5. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom by August Wilson
  6. Two Trains Running by August Wilson
  7. Dutchman & The Slave by Amiri Baraka
  8. Joe Turner’s Come and Gone by August Wilson
  9. Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
  10. Radio Golf by August Wilson
  11. The Red Letter Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks
  12. A Soldier’s Play by Charles Fuller
  13. For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
  14. The Plays of Georgia Douglas Johnson: From the New Negro Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement by Georgia Douglas Johnson
  15. Zora Neale Hurston: Collected Plays by Jean Lee Cole
  16. Yellowman – Acting Edition by Dael Orlandersmith
  17. Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 by James V. Hatch
  18. Passing Strange: The Complete Book and Lyrics of the Broadway Musical by Stew
  19. Bill Duke: My 40-Year Career on Screen and behind the Camera by Bill Duke
  20. Best of Friends Trilogy by Sherry Brantley
  21. Les Blancs: The Collected Last Plays: The Drinking Gourd/What Use Are Flowers? by Lorraine Hansberry
  22. By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage
  23. I Ain’t Yo’ Uncle: The New Jack Revisionist Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Robert Alexander
  24. The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show. by Carlyle Brown
  25. Sweat by Lynn Nottage
  26. Seven Guitars by August Wilson
  27. The African Company Presents Richard III. by Carlyle Brown
  28. Jitney by August Wilson
  29. Venus by Suzan-Lori Parks
  30. A star ain’t nothin’ but a hole in heaven by Judi Ann Mason
  31. Livin’ Fat : A Comedy in Two Acts by Judi Ann Mason
  32. The Fall of Heaven by Walter Mosley
  33. Ruined by Lynn Nottage
  34. The Darker Face of the Earth by Rita Dove
  35. Stick Fly: A Play by Lydia R. Diamond
  36. Harriet Jacobs: A Play by Lydia R. Diamond
  37. Breath, Boom by Kia Corthron
  38. Come Down Burning by Kia Corthron
  39. Splash Hatch on the E Going Down – Acting Edition by Kia Corthron
  40. Force Continuum – Acting Edition by Kia Corthron
  41. Seeking the Genesis – Acting Edition by Kia Corthron
  42. The Brother/Sister Plays by Tarell Alvin McCraney
  43. In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney
  44. Black eagles by Leslie Lee
  45. Between Now and Then: A Drama by Leslie Lee
  46. Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy
  47. Wildlife! by Ramona King
  48. Steal away: A folktale by Ramona King
  49. The Meeting by Jeff Stetson
  50. Hoodoo Love – Acting Edition by Katori Hall
  51. The Mountaintop by Katori Hall
  52. Hurt Village by Katori Hall
  53. Long Time Since Yesterday by P.J. Gibson
  54. Single Black Female by Lisa B. Thompson
  55. Fabulation, or, the Re-Education of Undine by Lynn Nottage
  56. Crumbs from the Table of Joy by Lynn Nottage
  57. Mud, River, Stone – Acting Edition by Lynn Nottage
  58. Intimate Apparel/Fabulation by Lynn Nottage
  59. Wine in the Wilderness by Alice Childress
  60. Mojo & String by Alice Childress
  61. Frye Street & environs: The collected works of Marita Bonner (Black women writers series) by Marita Bonner
  62. Purlie Victorious by Ossie Davis
  63. Papa’s Blues: A Play in Two Acts by Javon Johnson
  64. Stoop Stories – Acting Edition by Dael Orlandersmith
  65. Horsedreams by Dael Orlandersmith
  66. Beauty’s Daughter, Monster, The Gimmick: Three Plays by Dael Orlandersmith
  67. Black n Blue Boys/Broken Men by Dael Orlandersmith
  68. Home Life of Polar Bears by Hilly Hicks Jr.
  69. The Trophy Room by Hilly Hicks Jr.
  70. Everybody’s Ruby by Thulani Davis
  71. …And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley
  72. The House That Will Not Stand by Marcus Gardley
  73. The River Niger by Joseph A. Walker
  74. Big White Fog by Theodore Ward
  75. The Reckoning by Douglas Turner Ward
  76. Brotherhood by Douglas Turner Ward
  77. Happy Ending and A Day of Absence. by Douglas Turner Ward
  78. Touch – Acting Edition by Toni Press-Coffman
  79. Take a Giant Step by Louis Peterson
  80. Emergency & Through the Night by Daniel Beaty
  81. Non-Sequitur by Khadijah Queen
  82. Smart People: A Play by Lydia R. Diamond
  83. Dance of the Holy Ghosts: A Play on Memory by Marcus Gardley
  84. Jar the Floor – Acting Edition by Cheryl L. West
  85. Our Lady of Kibeho by Katori Hall
  86. The Richard Wesley Play Anthology by Richard Wesley
  87. Renaissance Men 1 by Laurence Holder
  88. What the Wine-Sellers Buy Plus Three: Four Plays by Ron Milner by Ron Milner
  89. Black Theatre USA: Plays by African Americans – The Recent Period 1935-Today by James V. Hatch
  90. Contemporary Plays by African American Women: Ten Complete Works by Nikkole Salter
  91. Pretty Fire – Acting Edition by Charlayne Woodard
  92. Sender: A Play by Ike Holter
  93. Some Old Black Man by James Anthony Tyler
  94. Frontieres Sans Frontieres by Phillip Howze
  95. Br’er Cotton by Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm
  96. Corktown, or Through the Valley of Dry Bones by Jeff Augustin
  97. Little Children Dream of God by Jeff Augustin
  98. Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea. by Nathan Alan Davis
  99. Eleven-Zulu by Sean Clark
  100. The Bow-Wow Club: A Play in Two Acts by Levy Lee Simon
  101. Prowess: A Play by Ike Holter
  102. Toussaint L’Ouverture: A Dramatic History by Leslie Pinckney Hill
  103. Jethro; A Biblical Drama by Leslie Pinckney Hill