Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun
Clifford Mason, "Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun"
English | ISBN: 1978809999 | 2020 | 246 pages | PDF | 13 MB
English | ISBN: 1978809999 | 2020 | 246 pages | PDF | 13 MB
2020 George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association
2021 PROSE Awards Finalist, Music & the Performing Arts
In 1936 Orson Welles directed a celebrated all-black production of Macbeth that was hailed as a breakthrough for African Americans in the theater. For over a century, black performers had fought for the right to perform on the American stage, going all the way back to an 1820s Shakespearean troupe that performed
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