Joe Guy
Roy Williams
Methuen
Joe Boateng, the 'David Beckham' of his generation, is Ghanaian Naomi, his childhood sweetheart is British and of Jamaican parentage With Joe's escalating celebrity status comes huge sacrifices, accusations...
$15.99
Plays by Genre - Black History Plays
What'd Ya Do Today Billy Joe?
Eleanor Harder
Dramatic Publishing
3 Male 2 Female
It is 1966 in a small Southern town, and Billy Joe Tyler, a nine-year-old black boy, is preparing to go to an all-white school in the morning Despite a white minister's assurance that he will walk with Bill...
$9.99
Black Comedy - Nine Plays
Pamela Faith Jackson (Editor)
Applause Books
This first-of-its kind collection includes a wide range of works, from an early examination and critique of American society after World War II to plays that reflect socio-political concerns that kept pace w...
$19.99
Southern Discomfort
Vin Morreale Jr
Dramatic Publishing
In Southern Discomfort, twelve short scenes and monologues combine to create a vivid emotional tapestry of the South today Experience the charm and vigor of old Dixie, as the essence of the South comes ...
$9.99
Take a Giant Step
Louis Peterson
Samuel French Inc
9 Male 7 Female
An African-American boy is emerging into an bewildering adult world He senses a growing estrangement from his white playmates and is expelled from school Lonely and confused, he ends up in a saloon being p...
$10.99
Levee James - USA/Canada ONLY
S.M. Shephard-Massat
Dramatic Publishing
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 ...
$9.99
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson
Samuel French Inc
8 Male 2 Female
It's 1927 in a rundown studio in Chicago where Ma Rainey is recording new sides of old favoritesMore goes down in the session than music in this riveting portrayal of rage, racism, the self hate and exploita...
$10.99
To Be Young Gifted and Black
Lorraine Hansberry & Robert Nemiroff
Samuel French Inc
2 Male 4 Female
A fast paced, powerful, touching and hilarious kaleidoscope of constantly shifting scenes, mood and images recreating the world of a great American woman and artist Uniquely and boldly, the play dramaticall...
$10.99
The Member of the Wedding
Carson McCullers
Josef Weinberger
6 Male 7 Female
Carsom McCullers has adapted this Play from her own novel of the same name ... This explores the poignant loneliness of adolescence and the strange bond between black and white in the American south Ja...
$15.99
The Ties That Bind - Inside the Belly of the Beast & Watermelon Rinds
Regina Taylor
Dramatic Publishing
3 Male 5 Female
Inside the Belly of the Beast is about a black man who is trying to make it in corporate America, and about what he must do to get there 'We take the journey with him,' Taylor explained. 'First we see hi...
$9.99
The Whipping Man
Matthew Lopez
Samuel French Inc
3 Male 0 Female
April, 1865 - the Civil War is over and throughout the South slaves are being freed, soldiers are returning home and in Jewish homes, the annual celebration of Passover is being celebrated Into the chaos of...
$10.99
Black Nativity - A Gospel Song Play
Langston Hughes
Dramatic Publishing
"His tone has that intimate, elusive, near-tragic, near-comic sound of the Negro blues, and is equally defiant of analysis" This is how a critic described this Christmas musical by Langston Hughes, who ment...
$10.99
White People
J.T. Rogers
Dramatists Play Service
2 Male 1 Female
What does it mean to be a white American? What does it mean for any American to live in a country that is not the one you were promised? White People is a controversial and darkly funny play about the li...
$13
Voices of Color - 50 Scenes and Monologues by 30 African American Playwrights
Woodie King - ed
Applause Books
A trailblazing collection of scenes and monologues by African American playwrights This major omnibus of contemporary American writing will serve as a primary resource for African American artists in searc...
$16.99
Rowing to America - The Immigration Project - USA/CANADA ONLY
J. Rufus Caleb & Kitty Chen & Others
Dramatic Publishing
5 Male 5 Female
A collection of nine one-act plays on the immigration, emigration and migration experience Written by a culturally diverse group of writers dealing with culturally diverse characters, these sometimes comic...
$10.95
Papa's Blues
Javon Johnson
Dramatic Publishing
3 Male 2 Female
Nathan is a man of pride and ambition struggling with racism, unemployment, and haunting memories of his father, Big Joe Big Joe was murdered while Nathan was still a boy Big Joe was an adamant civil r...
$9.99
Inns and Outs - Memorial Day & Independence Day & Labor Day & Halloween & Christmas & New Year's Eve
Caleen Sinnette Jennings
Dramatic Publishing
3 Male 5 Female
These six short plays are perfect fare for anyone who's had to get through a holiday and a relationship at the same time! Memorial Day - Two 30-something professionals try to consummate their relationship,...
$8.99
Four Black Revolutionary Plays - Experimental Death Unit 1 & A Black Mass & Madheart & Great Goodness of Life
Amiri Baraka who originally wrote as LeRoi Jones
Marion Boyars
These four one-act plays deal with African-American experience of today, their central elements being love and hatred echoed in violently explosive words, actions, thoughts and metaphor Each is a powerful s...
$22.99
A Heart Divided
Cherie Bennett & Jeff Gottesfeld
Dramatic Publishing
5 Male 1 Female
The Confederate flag - historical icon or racist symbol? This thought-provoking and gripping play sheds new light on a controversy that continues to divide the American heart When Kate's liberal-minded ...
$9.99
Not Black and White - Category B & Seize the Day & Detaining Justice
Bola Agbaje & Kwame Kwei-Armah & Roy Williams
Methuen
Not Black and White comprises of three new plays which examine the state of modern day Britain from the perspective of three leading black contemporary playwrights Roy Williams, Kwame Kwei-Armah and Bola A...
$28.99