Black History
Black history plays illuminate the stories, struggles and triumphs of Black communities across centuries and continents. Our collection brings together over 100 titles — from landmark civil rights dramas to contemporary works exploring identity and belonging — essential reading for any company committed to diverse and representative programming.
Slave Play by Jeremy O Harris Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) by Suzan-lori Parks Black Lives, Black Words by Reginald Edmund The Secret River (Stage Version) by Kate Grenville Desdemona by Toni Morrison Barber Shop Chronicles by Inua Ellams Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock Misty by Arinze Kene One Night In Miami... by Kemp Powers Jefferson's Garden by Timberlake Wertenbaker By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage Lady Day At Emerson's Bar & Grill by Lanie Robertson Nine Night by Natasha Gordon An Octoroon by Branden Jacobs-jenkins Ear For Eye by debbie tucker green Caroline or Change by Tony Kushner Br'er Cotton by Tarreance Arvell Chisholm The House That Will Not Stand by Marcus Gardley No Place to be Somebody by Charles Gordone Dolphins And Sharks by James Anthony Tyler Stick Fly by Lydia Diamond "Master Harold" -- And The Boys by Athol Fugard 8 Hotels by Nicholas Wright The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin Mccraney The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris The Mountaintop by Katori Hall Talking Bones by Shay Youngblood To Sir, With Love by E R. Braithwaite The Sugar Wife by Elizabeth Kuti Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti Rachel by Angelina Weld Grimke Choir Boy by Tarell Alvin Mccraney White Guy On The Bus by Bruce Graham Behind the Beautiful Forevers by David Hare from Katherine Boo Plays Of The American Experience by Thomas Hischak Josephine And I by Cush Jumbo Assata Taught Me by Kalungi Ssebandeke Pigs And Dogs by Caryl Churchill Liberian Girl by Diana Nneka Atuona The Blacks by Jean Genet Obama-ology by Aurin Squire The African Company Presents Richard Iii by Carlyle Brown Black Jesus by Anders Lustgarten A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window by Lorraine Hansberry Big White Fog by Theodore Ward The Hounding Of David Oluwale by Oladipo Agboluaje The Member of the Wedding by Carson Mccullers Emergency & Through the Night by Daniel Beaty The Jacksonian by Beth Henley Contemporary African Plays by Andrew Whaley Miss Julie - Freedom Summer by August Strindberg Kwei-armah Plays: 1 by Kwame Kwei-armah Human Rites by Seth Rozin The Fall Of Heaven by Walter Mosley A Coffin In Egypt by Horton Foote Black Girl by J E. Franklin Black Comedy by Pamela Faith Jackson (Editor) Flight by Charlayne Woodard