Five African-American playwrights on Broadway, 1923-1929.

摘要

This historical study documents the first five non-musical African-American authored plays to be presented in Broadway theatres: The Chip Woman's Fortune by Willis Richardson, a one-act comedy produced as part of the repertory of the Ethiopian Art Theatre in 1923; Appearances by Garland Anderson, a full-length melodrama produced in 1925; Fool's Errand, a one-act comedy by Eulalie Spence, performed by the Krigwa Players Little Negro Theatre in 1928 at the Fifth International Little Theatre Tournament; Meek Mose, a comedy-melodrama by Frank Wilson, the first of this group to have an African-American producer, presented in 1928; and Harlem, a melodrama produced in 1929, co-authored by Wallace Thurman, an African-American writer, and white writer William Jourdan Rapp. Commentaries by contemporary African-American and white critics of the period are included.