While working on a monologue master class recently, we found that plays containing monologues sometimes present challenges for actors that are unique to the monologue form. This starts with just ...

The year 1981 was a strange time to be a woman. On one hand, thanks to the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, significant strides were made toward gender equality. More than half of ...

From the origins of the Negro spiritual and the birth of the Harlem Renaissance to the emergence of a national black theatre movement, The Theatre of Black Americans offers a penetrating look at a ...