A community—and a legacy—of Black playwrights, performers, choreographers, and producers has transformed what we get to see on stage. Here, they tell their stories.
In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun arrived on the Great White Way, as Broadway was nicknamed. At the time, in Montgomery, Alabama, bus segregation had recently been toppled. In Ghana, independence from Great Britain had been achieved. It was the precipice of the 1960s, a period of radical change.
Drury’s We Are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia forces us to remember the internationally “forgotten” German-led early-20th-century genocide in South West Africa.There is an urgency but also an ancestral resonance to these stories, which are at once old and new.
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