THEATRE: Decolonizing Theatre: Home

Stages of Reckoning is a crucial conversation about how racialized bodies and power intersect within actor training spaces.

Black Acting Methods seeks to offer alternatives to the Euro-American performance styles that many actors find themselves working with.

Casting a Movement brings together US-based actors, directors, educators, playwrights, and scholars to explore the cultural politics of casting.

Fringe Benefits, an award-winning theatre company, collaborates with schools and communities to create plays that promote constructive dialogue about diversity and discrimination issues.

The Nuyorican Poets Café has for the past 40 years provided a space for multicultural artistic expression and a platform for the articulation of Puerto Rican and Black cultural politics. The Café's performances--poetry, music, hip hop, comedy, and drama--have been studied in detail, but until now, little attention has been paid to the voices of its women artists. Through archival research and interviews, this book examines the contributions of 1970s and '80s performers and how they challenged the Café's gender politics.

Senegalese Stagecraft explores the theatrical stage in Senegal as a site of poetic expression, political activism, and community engagement.

This book examines the function of dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg in making a theatre performance situated at the crossroads of multiple theatre forms and performative devices.