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This directory includes over 500 African American performers and theater people who have made a significant contribution to the American stage from the early 19th century to the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Entries provide succinct biographical and theatrical information gathered from a variety of sources including library theater and drama collections, dissertations and theses, newspaper and magazine reviews and critic...

Provides information on almost 1300 musical stage works written and produced from the 1870s to the 1990s and involving contributions by black librettists, lyricists, composers, musicians, producers or performers. Collaborations between black and white talents are also covered.

Biographical directory of early black American playwrights from the time prior to the Civil War to World War II. Around 200 playwrights, librettists, screenwriters and radio script writers and their work are discussed.

This work provides a wealth of information on obscure and overlooked American playwrights as well as some famous ones, it will be a welcome addition for collections specializing in the theater arts." Reference Books Bulletin "[An] essential purchase for drama and black studies collections." Library Journal