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Knock Me a Kiss - USA/Canada ONLY
3 Male, 3 Female
A fictional account inspired by the actual events surrounding the 1928 marriage of W.E.B. Du Bois’ daughter Yolande to one of Harlem’s great poets, Countee Cullen The marriage marked the height…
Kwei-Armah Plays 1 - Elmina’s Kitchen & Fix Up & Statement of Regret & Let There Be Love
Few playwrights have been as successful as Kwame Kwei-Armah at bringing a distinctive new voice and examination of our culture to the stage in recent years This collection of his work includes his trilogy…
Les Trois Dumas - USA/Canada ONLY
6 Male, 3 Female
Three generations of the internationally notorious Dumas family (General Thomas Du-mas, Alexandre Dumas père, and Alexandre Dumas fils) appear in this swashbuckling tale—abundant with battles, sword fights,…
Levee James - USA/Canada ONLY
2 Male, 1 Female
Set in early 1920s rural Georgia, this is both a powerful love story and a riveting exploration of just how far individuals will go to hold onto their personal dreams in a world of unrelenting oppression…
Looking Over the President’s Shoulder
1 Male, 0 Female
When Alonzo Fields accepted a job as a butler at the White House in 1931, his plan was to work there for the winter That winter lasted 21 years. Based on the real-life story of the grandson of a freed…
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
8 Male, 2 Female
It’s 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago where Ma Rainey is recording new sides of old favorites. More goes down in the session than music in this riveting portrayal of rage, racism, the self hate…
Man of Color - USA/Canada ONLY
2 Male, 1 Female
The year is 1824, when the Reverend Robert Wilson, third president of Ohio University, brings John Newton Templeton, a young ex-slave, to Ohio University to be the first man of color to attend the college…
Master Harold and the Boys
3 Male, 0 Female
A white teen who has grown up in the affectionate company of the two black waiters who work in his mother’s tea room in Port Elizabeth learns that his viciously racist alcoholic father is on his…
Medal of Honor Rag
3 Male, 0 Female
In an army hospital, a black winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor and a psychiatrist, both guilty survivors of Viet Nam, verbally spar until the doctor draws out the horror and disgust that has traumatized…
