Tag: Theatre Survey

  • “Most Fitting Companions”: Making Mixed-Race Bodies Visible in Antebellum Public Spaces Theatre Survey Volume 56, Issue 2, May 2015 pages 138-165 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557415000046 Lisa Merrill, Professor of Speech Communication, Rhetoric, Performance Studies Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York In the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, free and fugitive persons of color were aware…

  • Looking White, Acting Black: Cast(e)ing Fredi Washington Theatre Survey Volume 45, Issue 1 (2004) pages 19-40 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557404000031 Cheryl Black, Associate Professor of Acting, Theatre History/Theory/Criticism University of Missouri, Columbia In October 1926 a leading African-American newspaper, the Pittsburgh Courier, featured adjacent photographs of two young women with a provocative caption: “White Actresses Who Open…

  • Accounting for the Audience in Historical Reconstruction: Martin Jones’s Production of Langston Hughes’s Mulatto Theatre Survey Number 36, Issue 1 (1995) pages 5-19 DOI: 10.1017/S0040557400006451 Jay Plum, Ph.D. Although Langston Hughes’s Mulatto holds the record as the second longest Broadway production of a play by an African American playwright (surpassed only by Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin…