Theatre TIMMar 24, 20195 minWhat is this "Black"?In 1993 in the academic journal called Social Justice, Jamaican-British scholar Stuart Hall published an article titled "What Is This "Black" in Black Popula...
Theatre TIMFeb 20, 20192 minMy personal politics of "passing"Today in Black Dramatic Theory we got into discussions of shadism and the politics of color both within black spaces and outside of them. Many of the theoris...
Theatre TIMFeb 19, 20193 minWhere are the black musical theatre writers?We read In Dahomey, a musical comedy from 1902, with music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A. Shipp, and lyrics by poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and others, i...
Theatre TIMFeb 19, 20195 minAnansi and Other Tales that challenge the Western Theatre NarrativeI am currently taking a class on Black Dramatic Theory. From the first day in class I felt like I'd walked into the kind of academic setting that had the cap...