"Though New York remains the de facto capital of American theater,
much of the most daring and interesting work today is done by
regional theaters. This is doubly true of plays by African American
authors, who, despite a few notable exceptions (August Wilson, George
C. Wolfe), suffer under a commercial apartheid that keeps black plays
off Broadway. Of necessity, African American theater artists have to
create their own venues from the ground up. This wide-ranging
anthology edited by the founder of the New Federal Theater celebrates
the work of that companyÕs black-owned, black-run peers by presenting
work by 11 dramatists. Among the most interesting are Jeff StetsonÕs
moving The Meeting, which imagines a meeting between Malcolm X and
Martin Luther King Jr., and Shauneille PerryÕs fascinating updating
of In Dahomey, the 1903 musical hit that was the first Õall-Black
showÕ on Broadway." - Jack Helbig, Booklist
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