African American & Black

It's Grandma's birthday and the Frasier family have gathered to celebrate. Beverly just wants everything to run smoothly, but Tyrone has missed his flight, Keisha is freaking out about college and Grandma has locked herself in the bathroom. But something...

The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare, race, and America ... not necessarily in that order. Keith Hamilton Cobb embarks on a poetic exploration that examines the experience and perspective of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Book InformationISBN 9780452265349Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam...

1986. Ghana's prestigious Aburi Girls Boarding School. Queen Bee Paulina and her crew excitedly await the arrival of the Miss Ghana pageant recruiter. It's clear that Paulina is in top position to take the title until her place is threatened by...

NOW A NETFLIX FILM STARRING VIOLA DAVIS AND CHADWICK BOSEMAN *Two stunning, intensely powerful modern classics about race in 20th century America from the legendary Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright August Wilson*In Ma Rainey's Black...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Pulitzer Prize for Drama.Book InformationISBN 9780452264014Author August WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780688210847Author L. JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint William MorrowPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2019 and Pulitzer Prize for Drama 2019 (United States).Book InformationISBN 9781559369527Author Jackie Sibblies DruryFormat...

Exactly one year ago, I stood in that crumbling pulpit in Riverside and shouted that this war would be our own violent undoing, freedom's suicide . . . Well, I'll tell you, there weren't too many Amens that Sunday. But who is a man who does not speak his...

A grime-theatre mash-up. Too black for my white friends, but too white for my Black friends. Growing up mixed race in Newport, I fell into a cloud of grey. Absent Black father, ducking the police, working out what it means to be a man. I was struggling...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710384Author James IjamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385473767Author Anna Deavere SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA Inc

A lamppost. Night. Two friends are passing time. Stuck. Waiting for change.Inspired by Waiting for Godot and the Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically charged new play which exposes the experiences of young...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708718Author Dael OrlandersmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525564591Author Anna Deavere SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 202mm...

Before they were icons they were friends The world would come to know him as Muhammad Ali, but on 25 February 1964, a twenty-two-year-old Cassius Clay celebrated his world heavyweight title not by hitting the town, but in a hotel room with his three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559369787Author Jeremy O. HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679601722Author Lorraine HansberryFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679755333Author Lorraine HansberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 174mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559364423Author Lynn NottageFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573709555Author Suzan-Lori ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365963Author Dael OrlandersmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc...

Trained in classical piano and Marxism and raised on jazz, gospel, pop, hip hop, and Black revolutionary politics, Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis’s plays are marked by her stunning intimacy with the praxis of music alongside radical change. In...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365451Author Branden Jacobs-JenkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369103765Author Christine RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Playwrights Canada PressPublisher Playwrights Canada PressWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451183880Author Lorraine HansberryFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 176mm...

Othello famously supplicates, 'Speak of me as I am', pleading for the Venetians to 'nothing extenuate', leave out, or make thin (5.2.352). Othello's anxiety about narrative accuracy exposes his fear over his story's potential misrepresentation. As the...

Is God Isis a modern myth about twin sisters who sojourn from the Dirty South to the California desert to exact righteous revenge. Winner of the 2016 Relentless Award Aleshea Harris collides the ancient the modern the tragic the Spaghetti Western ...

Dominique Morisseau a rising star of the playwriting world and recipient of the 2014 Edward M. Kennedy Prize for Drama Inspired by American History takes the audience on a journey to 1967 in the city of Detroit. Motown music is getting the party...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365321Author Lynn NottageFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555978396Author Claudia RankineFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 137mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Lambda Literary Awards (Drama) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780573703980Author Robert O'HaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881458459Author Ike HolterFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 104g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559369657Author Adrienne KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Fences and The Piano Lesson comes a "vivid and uplifting" (Time) play about unsung men and women who are anything but ordinary. August Wilson established himself as one of our most distinguished playwrights with...

This poignant play, written by current and formerly incarcerated authors, uses gripping truths and soulful dialogue to reveal the human cost of America's for-profit justice system. The story follows Omar, pulled back into the prison system after trying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802147424Author Antoinette NwanduFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Black CatPublisher Black Cat

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559365383Author Dominique MorisseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881457827Author Charles GordoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990613114Author Harlem HolidayFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Harlem Westside PublishingPublisher Harlem Westside PublishingWeight(grams)...