Romulus Linney from Ernest J. Gaines
Dramatists Play Service
5 Male 2 Female
In the backwoods of Louisiana in 1948, innocent young man Jefferson has been condemned to death At his trial, his lawyer attempted to save his life by calling him no more a human being than a hog And so n...
$13
James DeVita
Dramatic Publishing
8 Male 6 Female
This moving musical drama is inspired by the true story of a young slave's journey to freedom through the Underground Railroad Whisperings of a railroad helping slaves across to the free states seem too go...
$9.99
Angela Counts
Dramatic Publishing
3 Male 3 Female
Hedy Grier, an African-American woman, has just buried her grandmother, Maxine With no ties, Hedy uproots herself, sells her Harlem brownstone, and embarks on a cross-country trip to search for the moth...
$9.99
Samuel L. Kelley
Dramatic Publishing
6 Male 0 Female
Pill Hill examines the failures and successes as well as the relationships of six black steel mill workers in Chicago as they move from the blue-collar to the white-collar profession It addresses the pa...
$9.99
Carlyle Brown
Dramatists Play Service
4 Male 2 Female
The high-stakes world of Civil Warera horse racing is the stage for this riveting drama of slavery and Reconstruction Both Simon Cato, a smart, cocky 'colored' jockey, and his horse, Pure Confidence, are ow...
$13
Theodore Ward
Nick Hern Books
A poignant family drama set in Chicago's South Side in the 1920s against a backdrop of the Great Depression and the inescapable racism of the times Struggling to keep his dreams alive and his family togeth...
$14.99
Leslie Lee
Samuel French Inc
This is an extraordinary drama about the Tuskegee airmen, America's first black fighter pilotsThe play opens at a reception honoring the airmen and Gen. Colin Powell As the elderly WWII pilots reminisce, ...
$10.99
Lee Hunkins
Dramatic Publishing
3 Male 3 Female
"You got to have goals and dreams. You got to find love in your hearts!" With these words, and the help of a magic quilt, five urban students are taken on a journey into the past by Stagecoach Mary, an ...
$9.99
Elizabeth Kuti
Nick Hern Books
A play about love, lust, prostitution and slavery ... A devout Quaker, her wealthy husband, a freed American slave and her emancipator come together in 1840s Dublin As they interact, each is revealed to b...
$16.99
Lydia R. Diamond from Toni Morrison
Dramatic Publishing
2 Male 6 Female
Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye is a story about the tragic life of a young black girl in 1940s Ohio Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove wants nothing more than to be loved by her fam...
$11.99
David Barr
Dramatic Publishing
5 Male 3 Female
"Utilizing video, pop culture, political nostalgia for '60s protest, modem rap's black rage and the current obsession with tabloid TV, playwright Barr sets his two-act play on, cleverly enough, the set of...
$9.99
Deirdre Osborne - ed
Oberon
B is for Black by Courttia Newland & Moj of the Antartic by Mojisola Adebayo & The Sons of Charlie Paora by Lennie James & Brown Girl in the Ring by Valerie Mason-John & Something Dark by Lem...
$21.99
Michael Murphy
Dramatists Play Service
1 Female
Political theatre at its best, bringing to life an issue that has perplexed this nation since its founding - dissent during a time of war The play dramatizes a largely forgotten period in the life of Dr. Ma...
$13
Charlayne Woodard
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 4 Female
In 1858, on a plantation in Georgia, a young mother is suddenly sold, leaving behind her husband and their five-year-old son Through a magical evening of storytelling, music and dance, the enslaved communit...
$13
S.M. Shephard-Massat
Dramatic Publishing
1 Male 5 Female
It's the summer of 1964 in Atlanta, Georgia when four middle-aged black women, co-workers from a local doll factory, travel by city bus to a "Whites Only" eating establishment inside a downtown Atlanta depar...
$10.99
Shay Youngblood from Mary Hoffman
Dramatic Publishing
4 Male 7 Female
"Amazing Grace is about a little girl who loves acting out stories, those told and read to her by her grandmother as well as ones she reads on her own She also makes up her own stories, acting out the mo...
$10.99
debbie tucker green
Nick Hern Books
Finalist Evening Standard Theatre AwardsFinalist 2019 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Patience is running out, times have changed And progress isn't enough Black British. African American Here. There Now S...
$14.99
Andrew Bovell from Kate Grenville
Nick Hern Books
A deeply moving and unflinching journey into Australia's dark history adapted from Kate Grenville's acclaimed novel William Thornhill arrives in New South Wales, deported as a convict from the slums of Lond...
$15.99
Thomas Hischak
Meriwether Publishing
Nothing brings the past alive better than stories performed by live actors Subtitled 25 Fascinating Stories for the Classroom or Stage, Plays of the American Experience is a unique Collection of 25 short pl...
$20.99
Monty Brown
Cyberpress
2 Male 2 Female
A One-Act Musical Play set in the Fannin Street Cafe in the black section of Shreveport, Louisiana It's 1957 and proprietors MABEL and SAM are trying to close early because a storm is brewing Suddenly two ...
$7.99
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