Drama

Leo, Misha, Ralph, and Dawn are old friends. The two couples have a lot in common--good educations, progressive politics, a taste for culture. But when a racially motivated incident with the cops leaves Leo shaken, he decides he must take extreme...

Inspired by the 15th century morality play Everyman, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' new work follows Everybody (played by one of five actors selected by lottery at the beginning of each performance) as he or she travels down a road toward life's greatest...

As a playwright, director, and performer, Robbie McCauley has been an influential presence in the American avant-garde theatre for many decades. In her work, she consistently confronts uncomfortable truths about race and racism in America with a sharp...

A boldly theatrical time travel epic from one of the premier chroniclers of Black gay life in the American theatre.In Robert O'Hara's stunning debut play, gay Black grad student Ron is transported back in time with his 189-year-old...

The fourth title in TCG Books' Illuminations series is a thrilling drama that examines the pressures racism exerts both in the streets and in the newsrooms that cover them.Rookie journalist Yvonne arrives at her first big-city newspaper job determined to...

A hauntingly surreal play that plumbs the depths of a group of close friends reuniting for the first time in decades.Twenty years after graduating from a Catholic academy in Washington, DC, a group of old friends gathers on a porch to pregame their high...

An uproarious play comprised of vignettes that deftly satirize post-"post-racial" America.Jordan E. Cooper's Ain't No Mo' is a hilarious satirical odyssey that needles post-Obama racial realities of life in the U.S. The time is the near future, and a...

Includes Revised Broadway version of AppropriateA double-volume containing two astonishing breakout plays from one of the theatre's most exciting and provocative young writers.In Appropriate, strained familial dynamics collide with a tense undercurrent...

What does it mean to be in a place and out of place at the same time? Gabrielle Civil explores this question by making black feminist performance art in Mexico. She asks unsuspecting Mexicans if they have good hair, visits legendary black expatriate...

"I Woke Up Black" by Marvin Michael O'Bryant is a story inspired by real-life experiences. It follows the life of Marvin, who has witnessed decades of depression, poverty, and a lack of motivation in a nation struggling with love and respect. Despite...

Creative and critical responses to the plays of award winning poet Jay Wright.The lauded poet Jay Wright is known for weaving global cosmologies into taut, rhythmically dynamic verses that double as poetic and philosophical treatises. Having recently...

Racial reckoning was a recurrent theme throughout the summer of 2020, a response to George Floyd's murder and the unprecedented impact of COVID on marginalized groups. Theater and Crisis proposes a literary and theatrical study of how Floyd's killing...

A funny, moving, and urgent new play from two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage. In this razor-sharp new comedy, a truck stop sandwich shop offers its formerly incarcerated kitchen staff a shot at reclaiming their lives. Even as the shop's...

The Mountaintop is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition, featuring notes and commentary by Martine Kei Greene-Rogers, Assistant Professor at SUNY: New Paltz, US. The introduction offers a discussion of key themes including race, identity,...

Beginning with his autobiographical sketch, Memoir and Theatrical Career of Ira Aldridge, The African Roscius follows Aldridge's journey as a Black man who, "obtained and maintains among Europeans...a reputation whose acquisition demands the highest...