This is Black History Month
Because we are a hip hop theater collective, each day on our Social Media, as we have for the last few years, we will post an event of importance in black theater history.
We post firsts, like the first black actor to play Othello, or the first black actor to win a Tony award in a particular category. Or like how the first actress to win best supporting actress in a musical was black.
We also do posts of major accomplishments in black theater, like the longest running black musical on Broadway, or the actor who has won the most Tony awards. Or the playwright who wrote a play documenting the black experience in each decade of the twentieth century.
And we are not, or at least we try not to be, New York-centric. We have posted about Karamu House, the first black theater in Ohio.
World Black Theater?
It’s been fun. I enjoy the research and learning more about the black theater experience.
But it has been pointed out to me that we are United States-centric. All of the posts have been about what has happened here.
Theater is part of the world culture. Black theater is part of the world culture.
So, we are reaching out to you.
- Help us put American black theater in context of world black theater.
- Teach us the things we don’t know.
- Post suggestions as comments on the blog, or as comments on our black theater social media posts of things we don’t know.
Help us celebrate Black Theater History Month.
Thank You!