Series 1
Play scripts,
1879-2002
31.5 linear ft. (63 boxes)
Scope and Content Note
The series consists of play scripts (as well as screenplays) from the years 1879 through 2002. The majority of the play scripts are by African American dramatists. Notable among the several hundred play scripts are works by Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, Alice Childress, Ruby Dee, Lorraine Hansberry, Zora Neale Hurston, Willis Richardson, Wole Soyinka, Melvin Van Peebles, Ted Shine, Derek Walcott, August Wilson, and Richard Wright.
A significant group of plays contained in the series were collected by Carlton Molette and Barbara Molette. These are noted in the container list by [Molette] at the end of the content listing.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order according to author's last name.
Box | Folder | Content |
---|---|---|
62 | 10 | Abdallah, Mohammed Ben, Ananse and the Golden Drum, 1972 |
1 | 1 | Ahmad, Sayeed, The Thing, 1969 [Pakistani author] |
43 | 1 | Alexander, Ric (pseud.), The Pilgrim's Pride and The Security of the State, 1963 and 1966 [Molette] |
1 | 2 | Allison, Hughes, It's Midnight Over Newark, 1941 |
1 | 3 | Allison, Hughes, Panyared, (forward) 1939 [Panyared is the African slavery term for kidnapped] |
1 | 4 | Allison, Hughes, Panyared, 1939 |
1 | 5 | Allison, Hughes, The Trial of Dr. Beck, 1937 [original production 1937, New Federal Theatre production January 1981] |
1 | 6 | Als, Hilton, Feminine Wiles, 1986 [first draft, Billie Holiday] |
1 | 7 | Amis, Lola Jones, The New Nigger, or Who's Afraid of William Faulkner, 1975 |
1 | 8 | Amis, Lola Jones, The Other Side of the Wall, 1965 |
1 | 9 | Anderson, T. Dianne, Black Sparrow, 1972 |
64 | 1 | Anderson, T. Dianne, The Unicorn Died at Dawn, no date |
1 | 10 | Anderson, T. Dianne, The Unicorn Died at Dawn, 1972 |
1 | 11 | Anthony, Earl (adapter), The Works of Frantz Fanon, 1980-1989 |
43 | 2 | Archibald, Douglas, Junction Village, no date [Molette] |
35 | 1 | Ashley, Wilson S., The Hit, no date |
1 | 12 | Atkins, Russell, The Abortionist, 1954 (2 copies) |
1 | 13 | Atkins, Russell, The Corpse, 1954 |
1 | 14 | Atkins, Russell, The Drop of Blood, 1961 [musical] |
1 | 15 | Atkins, Russell, The Exoneration, 1961 [produced: Karamu, 1971, Second One World Theatre Project, Cleveland, 1973] |
2 | 1 | Atkins, Russell, The Nail, 1971 |
35 | 2 | Aurthur, Robert Alan, Attica, 1977 |
43 | 3 | Aurthur, Robert Alan, Attica, 1978 |
2 | 2 | Azande, BaXai, 1977 |
35 | 3 | Bailey, Ronald H., Brothers in Arms: The Black GI During World War II, no date [book proposal] |
2 | 3 | Baker, Eloise and Charles Briggs, The Jitney Vehicle, 1972 |
2 | 4 | Baraka, Amiri [Leroi Jones], Board of Education, no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
2 | 5 | Baraka, Amiri [Leroi Jones], Columbia: The Gem of the Ocean, 1972 [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
43 | 4 | Baraka, Amiri [Leroi Jones], The Motion of History, 1976 |
2 | 6 | Baraka, Amiri [Leroi Jones], J-E-L-L-O, 1965 [produced: Black Arts Repertory Theater, 1965; actor's copy] |
2 | 7 | Baraka, Amiri [Leroi Jones], A Recent Killing, 1973 |
2 | 8 | Baraka, Amiri [Leroi Jones], The Sidnee Poet Heroical, no date [includes author's handwritten notes] |
2 | 9 | Baraka, Amiri [Leroi Jones], The Sidnee Poet Heroical, Or If In Danger of Suit, the King Poet Heroical, 1970 [former title: The Kid Poetical Tragical, New Federal Theatre production, 1975] |
2 | 10 | Barbour, Floyd Barrington, Auto Sacramental, 1961 |
2 | 11 | Barton, Peter, Dawn Song, no date [produced: Chelsea Theater Center] |
2 | 12 | Bates, H. Jack, Dear Morpheus, A Black Fantasy, 1970 |
2 | 13 | Beausey, De Reath Byrd, The Yellow Tree, no date |
2 | 14 | Bell, Denise, Cliches and Siloques [sic] and Lies, 1977 |
2 | 15 | Bell, Denise, Dialogues of the Shadow Women, 1977 |
43 | 5 | Benjamin, Paul, Aces, 1980 |
35 | 4 | Benjamin, Paul, The Box, 1982 |
43 | 6 | Benjamin, Paul, Carrier, no date |
3 | 1 | Benjamin, Shafik and James Hatch, Closed Circuit, 1973 [film script] |
3 | 2 | Benjamin, Shafik, Forgotten Women, 1994 [film script] |
64 | 2 | Benjamin, Shafik, Fury in the Jungle, 2005 |
35 | 5 | Benjamin, Shafik, The Gun in the Closet, 1999 |
64 | 3 | Benjamin, Shafik, Isis and Osiris, 2003 |
3 | 3 | Benjamin, Shafik, The Jail and the Jailor, no date |
3 | 4 | Benjamin, Shafik, Kingdom in a Box, 1991 [film script] |
35 | 6 | Benjamin, Shafik, Kismet in the Sand, no date |
64 | 4 | Benjamin, Shafik, Kismet in the Sand, 2005 |
3 | 5 | Benjamin, Shafik, The New Terror, 1993 [film script] |
35 | 7 | Benjamin, Shafik, The Rape of Afrika Shonara, 2002 |
3 | 6 | Benjamin, Shafik, The Sphinx in London, 1992 [film script] |
3 | 7 | Beverly, Trazana, Git on Board, 1980 [revision May, 1981] |
43 | 7 | Biberman, Herbert J. and John O. Killens, The Slaves, 1967 |
3 | 8 | Black, Jeanne B., The Pit, 1948 |
35 | 8 | Black, William Electric, Road Ta Timbuktu, 1979 |
3 | 9 | Bland, Edward O, and Nelam L. Hill, The American Hero, 1971 [film script] |
94 | 5 | Bond, Frederick W., The Negro and the Drama, 1940 |
3 | 10 | Bonner, Marita, Exit, An Illusion, 1929 |
3 | 11 | Bonner, Marita, The Pot Maker, 1927 |
43 | 8 | Borowitz, Andy and Susan Borowitz, The Fresh Prince Projects, 1990 [Molette] |
4 | 1 | Bradford, Roy, The Blind Spot, 1968 |
44 | 1 | Branch, William, A Medal for Willie, no date [Molette] |
4 | 2 | Branch, William, Wreath for Udomo, 1956-57 [based upon the novel by Peter Abrahams; performed: Karamu, 1960; London, 1961] [copy 1] |
61 | 2 | Branch, William, Wreath for Udomo, 1956-57 [copy 2] |
4 | 3 | Branch, William B., Fifty Steps Toward Freedom, 1959 |
4 | 4 | Branchcomb, Sylvia Woingust and Carmen Mulligan, It's Our Time to Speak, 1975 [musical] |
36 | 1 | Brecht, Bert, The Threepenny Opera, [1956] |
44 | 2 | Bridges, Robert A., A Pride of Pilgrims, 1992 |
4 | 5 | Briggs, James J., Cyprus, 1979 |
4 | 6 | Brockington, Robette, No Crystal Stair, 1980 |
4 | 7 | Brockington, Robette, What It Is, 1980 |
63 | 5 | Brown, Carlyle, Are You Now or Have You Ever Been..., 2007 |
44 | 3 | Brown, Carlyle, Buffalo Hair, no date |
44 | 4 | Brown, Carlyle, Richard the Third, no date |
44 | 5 | Brown, Carlyle, The Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Colored Minstrel Show, no date |
4 | 8 | Brown, Wesley, Boogie Woogie and Booker T, 1984 [performed: February 12, 1987, New Federal Theatre] [2 versions] |
44 | 6 | Brown, William Wells, The Escape; or A Leap for Freedom, no date [Molette] |
44 | 7 | Brown, William Wells, The Escape; or A Leap for Freedom, 1976 [Molette] |
36 | 2 | Browne, Gordon, The African Wars in the Bronx, no date [screenplay] |
4 | 9 | Browne, Theodore, A Black Woman Called Moses, 1937 [original title: Go Down Moses, Harriet Tubman] |
4 | 10 | Browne, Theodore, Go Down Moses, Harriet Tubman, 1938 [original version of A Black Woman Called Moses, performed: Negro Unit of WPA Federal Theatre, Seattle, 1937] |
4 | 11 | Browne, Theodore, The Gravy Train, 1940 [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
5 | 1 | Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth, Mam Phyllis, 1985 [original edition 1981] |
5 | 2 | Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth, Marry Me, Again, 1985 |
5 | 3 | Brown-Guillory, Elizabeth, Snapshots of Broken Dolls, 1986 [produced: Lincoln Center October 1986] |
5 | 4 | Bryant, H. J., Black Circles Around Angela: A Documentary Musical, 1970 |
36 | 3 | Bubbling Brown Sugar, no date [preservation photocopy] |
5 | 5 | Bullins, Ed, Boy X Man, 1995 |
5 | 6 | Bullins, Ed, Daddy, or the Prince of Darkness, 1977 [produced: New Federal Theatre, 1977] |
5 | 7 | Bullins, Ed, Death List, 1970 |
5 | 8 | Bullins, Ed, Dialect Determinism, or The Rally, 1965 [performed: Firehouse Repertory, San Francisco, 1965] |
5 | 9 | Bullins, Ed, The Gentleman-Caller, 1971 |
5 | 10 | Bullins, Ed, House Party: A Soulful Happening, 1973 [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library; produced: American Place Theatre New York City 1973] |
5 | 11 | Bullins, Ed, How Do You Do, 1965 |
5 | 12 | Bullins, Ed, Malcolm: '71, Or Publishing Blackness, 1971 |
5 | 13 | Bullins, Ed and Marvin X, Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam, 1990 [based on Autobiography of a North American Afrikan by Marvin X] |
5 | 14 | Burrill, Mary, Aftermath, 1919 |
5 | 15 | Butcher, James W., Milk and Honey, (incomplete) late 1930's [produced: Howard University, late 1930's] |
5 | 16 | Butler, Tommy Z., Selma: A Musical Stage Play Depicting the Civil Rights Struggle, 1974 [performed: 1984, New Federal Theatre] |
5 | 17 | Caldwell, Ben, Destiny Rides Again, 1977 |
5 | 18 | Caldwell, Ben, Die Now Pay Later, 1972 |
5 | 19 | Caldwell, Ben, Eugyptus, 1978 |
5 | 20 | Caldwell, Ben, Extraordinary People, 1981 |
5 | 21 | Caldwell, Ben, Extrapolation Blues, 1984 |
6 | 1 | Caldwell, Ben, Five One Acts, 1967 [Recognition (1967); The Fanatic, or Testifyin (1967); Unprecedented, or What Needs to be Done (1968); The Wall (1967); and Hypnotism (1966)] |
6 | 2 | Caldwell, Ben, God is Where you Find It, 1975 [See: Reverend Mac, for introductory notes] |
6 | 3 | Caldwell, Ben, The Great New York City Crisis, 1978 |
6 | 4 | Caldwell, Ben, Harriet's Song, 1998 |
6 | 5 | Caldwell, Ben, Jesus Christ, Too, 1997 |
6 | 6 | Caldwell, Ben, L-O-V-E, 1965 |
6 | 7 | Caldwell, Ben, Nothing but a Man, 1977 |
6 | 8 | Caldwell, Ben, Race to War, 1976 [See: Sleeping Beauty, for introductory notes] |
6 | 9 | Caldwell, Ben, Reverend Mac, 1980 |
6 | 10 | Caldwell, Ben, Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, 1971 |
6 | 11 | Caldwell, Ben, Steady Gettin' Down, 1976 |
6 | 12 | Caldwell, Ben, Uptight, 1974 |
6 | 13 | Caldwell, Ben, Veterans, 1975 |
6 | 14 | Caldwell, Ben, The World of Ben Caldwell, (incomplete) no date |
44 | 8 | Carroll, Vinnette, Trumpets of the Lord, 1964 |
6 | 15 | Carter, Steve, One Last Look, 1967 |
64 | 5 | Carter, Steve, One Last Look, 1975 |
45 | 1 | Carter, Steve, Pecong, no date |
6 | 16 | Carter, Steve, Primary Colors, no date (2 copies) |
6 | 17 | Carter, Steve, Terraces, 1974 (2 copies) |
45 | 2 | Cartwright, Peggy, The Free, no date |
36 | 4 | Cassavetes, John, Gloria, no date [production information] |
45 | 3 | Ce, Ruth, Four Generations in Conversation, 1978 |
45 | 4 | Ce, Ruth, Ham, 1978 |
45 | 5 | Chappelle-Baskind, Ma-sheri, The Roomer, 1990 |
6 | 18 | Charles, Martie, Black Cycle, 1971 |
6 | 19 | Charles, Martie (Evans), Jamimma, 1971 |
6 | 20 | Charles, Martie, Where We At?, 1969 |
6 | 21 | Childress, Alice, Florence, 1950 |
6 | 22 | Childress, Alice, Wedding Band, 1965 |
- | - | Childress, Alice and Langston Hughes, When a Man Sees Red [See Subseries 5.1, Langston Hughes collection: Adaptations/Translations] |
45 | 6 | Childress, Alice, The World on a Hill, no date |
62 | 6 | Chinn, John Clarence, Jelly Roll, no date [1 of 2] |
62 | 7 | Chinn, John Clarence, Jelly Roll, no date [2 of 2] |
7 | 1 | Clay II, Buriel, Buy A Little Tenderness, 1971 |
7 | 2 | Clay II, Buriel, The Creation of the World, 1972 [ballet] |
7 | 3 | Clay II, Buriel, Liberty Call, 1974 |
7 | 4 | Clay II, Buriel, Raw Head, Bloody Bones, 1972 |
45 | 7 | Cohan, Martin and Blake Hunter, Full House, 1984 |
7 | 5 | Cohen, Robert Carl, Cudjoe the Maroon, 1986 [film script] |
45 | 8 | Cole, Malvine, Four-in-Hand, 1970 |
7 | 6 | Coleman, Ralf, Swing Song, 1937 [produced: Federal Theatre of Boston, 1938] |
7 | 7 | Coles, Robert, Woke Up This Mornin' Good Thing On My Mind, 1975 [produced: Tempe State University, Arizona, 1975] |
7 | 8 | Collie, Brenda Faye, Silent Octaves, 1979 |
7 | 9 | Collins, Kathleen, Only the Sky Is Free, 1985 [screenplay; produced: Richard Allen Center for Culture and Arts, New York City, 1986] |
61 | 3 | Cook, Will Marion, Where Magnolias Bloom, 1904 [photocopy] |
7 | 10 | Cooper, Ted G., Good Night, Mary Beck, 1974 |
7 | 11 | Cooper, Theodore G., Chocolate Boy, no date |
7 | 12 | Cooper, Theodore G., Mack, no date |
7 | 13 | Cotter, Joe, Jr., On the Fields of France, 1920 |
45 | 9 | Cotter, Joseph S, Caleb, The Degenerate, 1903 [Molette] |
7 | 14 | Cox, Tony, Man's Best Friend, 1975 |
8 | 1 | Cox, Tony, Take a Look, 1971 |
8 | 2 | Cucci, Frank, The Ofay Watcher, 1968 |
46 | 1 | Cullen, Countee, Byword for Evil, no date [Molette] |
8 | 3 | Cullen, Countee, One Way to Heaven, (incomplete) 1936 [full script at Beinecke Library, Yale University] |
36 | 5 | Cullen, Countee, and Arna Bontemps, Saint Louis Woman, (as revised for the Federal Theatre of Los Angeles by Langston Hughes), no date |
36 | 6 | Curran, Leigh, Walking the Blonde, 1987 |
93 | 5 | Dafora, Asadata, "KyKunKor," Africa's Great Dance Opera, carbon typescript, 1934 |
63 | 6 | Daisey, Mike, The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, 2012 |
8 | 4 | Davidson, N. R., Short Fun, 1970 |
8 | 5 | Davis, A. I., Black Sunlight, 1974 |
8 | 6 | Davis, Luther, Across 110th, 1971 [screen play based on the novel by Wally Ferris] |
8 | 7 | Davis, Maxine, A Silver Celebration, no date |
8 | 8 | Davis, Ossie, Alice in Wonder, no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
8 | 9 | Davis, Ossie, Montgomery Footprints, no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
8 | 10 | Davis, Ossie, What Can You Say to Mississippi? no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
46 | 2 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, Acres of Diamonds, 1984 |
46 | 3 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, American Belly Laugh, no date |
46 | 4 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, Bread, Wine and Cheese, 1984 |
46 | 5 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, Freeman, no date (1) |
46 | 6 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, Freeman, no date (2) |
46 | 7 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, The Last American Dixieland Band, no date |
47 | 1 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, The Last American Dixieland Band, 1974 |
47 | 2 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, Paul Robeson, 1978 |
47 | 3 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, Paul Robeson in Concert, no date |
8 | 11 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, The Relationship, 1975 |
8 | 12 | Dean, Phillip Hayes, The Sty of the Blind Pig, 1971 |
8 | 13 | DeAnda, Peter, Ladies In Waiting, 1966 |
9 | 1 | Dee, Ruby, Take it From the Top, 1977 |
64 | 6 | DeGraft, Joe, Five African Plays, no date |
9 | 2 | Dendy, Brooks, III, Environmental Dramas, 1975 |
9 | 3 | Dendy, Brooks, III, Julius Caesar's Doomsday, 1963 |
9 | 4 | Dent, Tom, Riot Duty, 1969 |
9 | 5 | Dent, Tom, Ritual Murder, 1966 [produced: Ethiopian Theatre 1977] |
9 | 6 | Dent, Tom, They Came This Morning, no date |
47 | 4 | Dinwiddie, Michael, The Beautiful LaSalles, 1983 |
9 | 7 | Dinwiddie, Michael, Dacha, 1978 [produced: Wonderhorse Theater, Harlem, 1981] |
47 | 5 | Dinwiddie, Michael, Original Rags, 1995 |
9 | 8 | Dixon, Melvin, Confrontation, 1969 |
9 | 9 | Dixon, Melvin, Kingdom, Or The Last Promise, 1969, 1971 |
47 | 6 | Dodson, Owen, The Ballad of Dorrie Miller, 1943, and Ross, John M., Wanga Doll, no date [Molette] |
94 | 1 | Dotson, Alma G. Alma's European-African Venture, 1973 |
94 | 2 | Dotson, Alma G. Rosei the Riveter Revisted: Women and the World War II Work Experience, 1983, 1973 |
9 | 10 | Dunbar, Paul Lawrence, An Evening With Dunbar, 1938 [produced: Federal Theatre Project] |
9 | 11 | Duncan, Danny, Generations, A New Musical Drama, 1981 |
9 | 12 | Duncan, Thelma M., Jinda, no date |
9 | 13 | Duncan, Thelma Myrtle, Black Magic, 1931 |
9 | 14 | Duncan, Thelma Myrtle, Driftin', no date |
9 | 15 | Duncan, Thelma Myrtle, Payment, no date |
9 | 16 | Dunne, George H., Trial By Fire, 1946 [revised: 1948, 1992] |
9 | 17 | Easton, William Edgar, Christophe: A Tragedy in Prose of Imperial Haiti, 1911 [produced: Gamut Auditorium, Los Angeles, 1912] |
9 | 18 | Edmonds, Randolph, Earth and Stars, 1961 [original version: 1946] |
65 | 1 | Edmonds, Randolph, Earth and Stars, 1961 [with author's inscription] |
9 | 19 | Edmonds, Randolph, Six Plays for the Negro Theatre, 1934 [Bad Man, Old Man Pete, Nat Turner, Breeders, Bleeding Hearts, The New Window] |
65 | 2 | Elder, Lonne III, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, no date |
9 | 20 | Elder, Lonne III, Ceremonies in Dark Old Men, 1965 |
10 | 1 | Elder, Lonne III, Charades on East Fourth Street, 1967 |
10 | 2 | Elder, Lonne III, A Hysterical Turtle in A Rabbit Race, 1958 |
61 | 4 | Elder, Lonne III, The Remarkable Demise of a Splendid Mummer, no date |
47 | 7 | Elder, Lonne III, Seven Comes Up, Seven Comes Down and Kissin' Rattlesnakes Can Be Fun, no date |
47 | 8 | Elder, Lonne III, Seven Comes Up, Seven Comes Down and Revival, no date |
10 | 3 | Elder, Lonne, III, Splendid Mummer, 1970's [based on the life of Ira Frederick Aldridge] |
36 | 7 | Ellington, Duke, Man with Four Sides, no date |
10 | 4 | England, E., Take My Stand, 1935 |
10 | 5 | Etienne, The Jazzman and His Lady Fair, 1965 |
47 | 9 | Evans, Don, Change of Mind and earlier version of script, Call It Showdown, no date [Molette] |
10 | 6 | Fabio, Sarah Webster, Saga of the Black Man, 1968 |
62 | 3 | Ferrin, Sidney, The Pumpkin Colored Trio, no date |
36 | 8 | Fields, Elysian (Courney Chesterfield?), The Killin' Flo, 1978 [2 versions] |
48 | 1 | Ford, Kathryn, Equal Justice, Promises to Keep, 1989 |
48 | 2 | Fox, Herbert Franklin, Jubilee, no date |
10 | 7 | Frazier, Hank, A Black Market, 1976 |
48 | 3 | Franklin, J. E., Black Girl, no date |
10 | 8 | Franklin, J. E. and Micki Grant, The Prodigal Sister, no date |
62 | 11 | Freelon, Greg, Jump Back: A Musical Fantasy for Children, 1982 |
48 | 4 | Frost, Terry D., The Book of Job, 1990 |
48 | 5 | Fugard, Athol, Playland, 1992 |
48 | 6 | Fuller, Charles, A Gathering of Old Men (screenplay), no date |
10 | 9 | Fuller, Charles, The Brownsville Raid, 1975 [produced: Negro Ensemble Company, 1976] |
10 | 10 | Fuller, Charles, In My Many Names and Days, 1971 |
48 | 7 | Fuller, Charles, In My Many Names and Days, 1971 |
10 | 11 | Fuller, Charles, We: A History in Five Plays, (incomplete) 1986 [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] (1 of 3) |
10 | 12 | Fuller, Charles, We: A History in Five Plays, 1986 (2 of 3) |
10 | 13 | Fuller, Charles, We: A History in Five Plays, 1986 (3 of 3) |
48 | 8 | Fuller, Charles H., Jr., The Village: (A Party), no date |
11 | 1 | Furman, Roger, The Gimmick, 1970 |
11 | 2 | Furman, Roger, The Long Black Block, 1971 |
11 | 3 | Furman, Roger, To Kill A Devil, 1970 [produced: New Federal Theatre, 1972] |
11 | 4 | Gaines, J. E., Don't Let It Go To Your Head, 1970 |
11 | 5 | Gaines, J. E., Heaven And Hell's Agreement, 1973 |
11 | 6 | Gaines, J. E., Sometimes a Hard Head Makes a Soft Behind, no date |
11 | 7 | Gaines, J. E., Twenty Year Friends, 1981 |
11 | 8 | Gaines, J. E., What If It Had Turned Up Heads, no date |
49 | 1 | Gardner, Herb, I'm Not Rappaport, 1985 |
49 | 2 | Garrett, Nancy Fales, Some Sweet Day, 1987 |
49 | 3 | Gentry, Minnie, My House is Falling Down, 1964 |
11 | 9 | Gibbs, Ruth D., and Sophie Johnson, Percy Sutton Story, no date [musical, adapted from The Changing of the Guard, by Alfred A. Duckett] |
11 | 10 | Gibson, P.J., P.J. Gibson Plays, 2002 [Deep Roots, Annie May's Child, The Ancestor Series: A Trilogy, My Mark, My Name, Unveilings] (1of 5) |
11 | 11 | Gibson, P.J., P.J. Gibson Plays, 2002 (2 of 5) |
11 | 12 | Gibson, P.J., P.J. Gibson Plays, 2002 (3 of 5) |
11 | 13 | Gibson, P.J., P.J. Gibson Plays, 2002 (4 of 5) |
11 | 14 | Gibson, P.J., P.J. Gibson Plays, 2002 (5 of 5) |
37 | 1 | Gibson, William, A Cry of Players, 1968 |
37 | 2 | Glenn, Robert, Bird, The Legend of Charlie Parker, no date |
12 | 1 | Gold, Michael, Hoboken Blues, 1927 |
49 | 4 | Gordon, Steve, Tough to Get Help, 1971 |
49 | 5 | Gordone, Charles, No Place to be Somebody, 1967 |
49 | 6 | Gordone, Charles, No Place to be Somebody, 1972 |
12 | 2 | Goss, Clay, Andrew: A Play of Remembrance, 1969 [produced: New Federal Theatre, NYC, 1971-72; Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, 1970; Negro Ensemble Company, NYC, 1971; New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theater, 1972] |
12 | 3 | Goss, Clay, Being Hit, 1970 [produced: Howard University, Washington, D. C., Black Repertory Theatre, Washington, D.C., 1972; Billie Holiday Theatre, Brooklyn, New York, 1973; Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1974] (2 copies) |
12 | 4 | Graham, Billy, The Trial of Adam Clayton Powell Jr., 1981 |
12 | 5 | Graham, Ottie B., Holiday, 1923 |
37 | 3 | Graham, Shirley, Coal Dust, no date |
37 | 4 | Graham, Shirley, Elijah's Ravens, 1940 [with December 28, 1940 letter to "Rowena" with revisions to act two] |
37 | 5 | Graham, Shirley, I Gotta Home, 1939 [three versions] |
37 | 6 | Graham, Shirley, It's Morning, 1938 and 1939 [two versions] |
38 | 1 | Graham, Shirley, Tom Tom, no date [also includes assignments, property lists, costume designs, etc.] |
38 | 2 | Graham, Shirley, Track Thirteen, no date [radio play] |
12 | 6 | Grant, Micki, Don't Underestimate a Nut: Young George Washington Carver, 1993 (2 copies) |
12 | 7 | Grant, Micki, and Charles Douglass, Springtime in Alaska, 1986 (2 copies) |
62 | 8 | Gray, Rudy, Conversation with a Kleagle, 2010 |
62 | 9 | Gray, Rudy, Mischling, 2010 |
12 | 8 | Green, Paul, In Abraham's Bosom, no date (2 copies) |
12 | 9 | Greenridge, Gertrude, Lemonade, 1973 [one of 6 short plays for children under the title Playground] |
12 | 10 | Griffin, Charles, Frat Brothers, 1959 [includes handwritten notes 1960-61] |
12 | 11 | Gunn, Bill, Family Employment, 1984 |
12 | 12 | Gunn, Bill, The Owllight, no date |
12 | 13 | Gunn, Bill, Renaissance, 1985 |
12 | 14 | Gunn, Bill, Rhinestone, 1978 |
63 | 7 | Gurira, Danai, The Convert (draft), 2012 |
49 | 7 | Haley, Alex, Roots, 1974 [Molette] |
13 | 1 | Hansberry, Lorraine, Les Blancs, 1966 |
49 | 8 | Hansberry, Lorraine, Les Blancs, 1969 |
38 | 3 | Hansberry, Lorraine, The Drinking Gourd, no date |
63 | 4 | Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin in the Sun, 1959 [includes newspaper clippings of New York newspaper reviews] |
13 | 2 | Hansberry, Lorraine, and adapted by Robert Nimeroff, To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: A Portrait of Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words, 1969 |
50 | 1 | Hansberry, Lorraine, What Use Are Flowers?, 1966 |
13 | 3 | Harburg, E. Y., Fred Saidy and Harold Arlen (music), Jamaica, 1957 |
13 | 4 | Harris, Valerie, Ice Game, 1978 |
13 | 5 | Harris, Valerie, Nights Alone, 1977 |
13 | 6 | Harris, Valerie, Nights Alone in the Naked City, 1980 |
13 | 7 | Harris, Valerie, The Redesther Play: A Fable, 1978 |
50 | 2 | Harrison, Paul Carter, Anchorman, 1982 |
50 | 3 | Harrison, Paul Carter, Cold Duck and Bon Bons, 1971 |
13 | 8 | Harrison, Paul Carter and Wendell Logan, The Doxology Opera/The Doxy Canticles, 1994 [Additional copyright dates: 1996, 2001] |
13 | 9 | Harrison, Paul Carter, The Experimental Leader, no date (2 copies) |
13 | 10 | Harrison, Paul Carter and Olu Dara, Goreé Crossing, 1990 [revised 1992, 1996] |
50 | 4 | Harrison, Paul Carter, Interface, 1966 |
50 | 5 | Harrison, Paul Carter, Pavane, no date |
13 | 11 | Harrison, Paul Carter, Pawns, no date (2 copies) |
14 | 1 | Harrison, Paul Carter, Tabernacle, 1969 [produced: Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1969; California State University Sacramento, 1971; Afro-American Studio, 1974, 1976, 1979, 1981] |
50 | 6 | Harrison, Paul Carter, Tophat, no date |
50 | 7 | Haskins, Jim, Langston Hughes: A Film Biography, 1976 |
14 | 2 | Hassan, Umar Bin, Suspenders, 1979 [produced: New Federal Theatre, 1979] |
50 | 8 | Hatch, Margaret Beddow, The Cosby Show: Vanessa's Rich, 1986 |
14 | 3 | Hay, Samuel, A Hero Ain't Nothin' but a Sandwich, 1996 [based on the novel by Alice Childress] |
14 | 4 | Hazzard, Alvira, Little Heads, 1928 |
50 | 9 | Hawkins, Cheryl, We Have to Change Sometimes, 1975, and Shattered Home, 1977 |
14 | 5 | Hebald, Carol, The Fat Lady, no date |
38 | 4 | Hellman, Lillian, The Little Foxes, 1967 [includes 1982 invitation to premier supper party honoring Elizabeth Taylor and the cast hosted by Zev Bufman and Louis Benjamin at the Savoy] |
14 | 6 | Hemphill, A. Marcus, Inacent Black, or Inacent Black and the Five Brothers, 1978 |
14 | 7 | Henderson-Holmes, Safiya, I'll Be Home Soon (Screams From a Keyhole), 1984 |
14 | 8 | Heyward, Dorothy, Set My People Free, 1948 (2 copies) |
14 | 9 | Hill, Abram, Beyond the Bush, 1970 |
51 | 1 | Hill, Abram, Heav' On Striver's Row, 1934 |
51 | 2 | Hill, Abram, Hell's Half Acre, 1938 |
51 | 3 | Hill, Abram, Latin, Greek or Grits, no date |
51 | 4 | Hill, Abram, So Shall You Reap, 1938 |
51 | 5 | Hill, Abram, Stealing Lightning, 1937 |
14 | 10 | Hill, Abram, Strivers Row, 1938 |
94 | 6 | Hill, Abram, Strivers Row, undated |
94 | 7 | Hill, Abram, Strivers Row, undated |
61 | 5 | Hill, Abram, Strivers Row, no date |
61 | 6 | Hill, Abram, Strivers Row, no date [American Negro Theatre, New York, New York] |
15 | 1 | Hill, Alberta, Sunshine Moonbeam, 1976 |
50 | 10 | Hill, Errol, Man Better Man, no date |
15 | 2 | Hill, Errol, Man Better Man, 1954 |
61 | 6 | Hill, J. Laurie, My Friend From Dixie, 1913 |
61 | 7 | Hill, J. Laurie, My Friend From Kentucky, 1913 |
15 | 3 | Hilliard, Robert, Pride of the Race, (incomplete) 1916 |
15 | 4 | Holder, Laurence, Dreams Deferred, 1981 |
15 | 5 | Holder, Laurence, Hot Fingers, 1990 |
51 | 6 | Holland, Endesha Ida Mae, From the Mississippi Delta, 1992 [Molette] |
15 | 6 | Holland, Endesha Ida Mae, The Reconstruction of Dossie Ree Hemphill, 1980 |
15 | 7 | Hoornik, Eduard, The Water, no date [translated by Rosey E. Pool] |
15 | 8 | Hopkins, Pauline, Peculiar Sam Or the Underground Railway, 1879 |
15 | 9 | Houston, Christine, 227, 1978 |
38 | 5 | Hughes, C. Austin, Orchids and Lace, 1990 |
15 | 10 | Hunkins, Lee, Sequestered, 1985 |
15 | 11 | Huntley, Madeline, Havoc in Harlem, 1967 [revised 1969] |
38 | 6 | Hurd, Hugh L., After Hours, 1984 |
15 | 12 | Hurston, Zora Neale, Cold Keener: A Revue, 1933 [from the Collection of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress] |
15 | 13 | Hurston, Zora Neale, De Turkey and de Law, 1930 [from the Collection of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress] |
15 | 14 | Hurston, Zora Neale, The First One, no date |
15 | 15 | Hurston, Zora Neale, Forty Yards, 1931 [from the Collection of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress] |
15 | 16 | Hurston, Zora Neale, Lawing and Jawing, 1931 [from the Collection of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress] |
15 | 17 | Hurston, Zora Neale, Poker!, 1931 [from the Collection of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress] |
15 | 18 | Hurston, Zora Neale and Dorothy Waring, Polk County, 1944 |
15 | 19 | Hurston, Zora Neale, Spunk, 1935 [from the Collection of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress] |
15 | 20 | Hurston, Zora Neale, Woofing, 1931 [from the Collection of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress] |
15 | 21 | Iman, Yusef, Praise the Lord, But Pass the Ammunition, 1967 |
16 | 1 | Jackson, Bernard C. and James V. Hatch, Fly Blackbird, A Musical, 1960 [productions: Shoebox Theatre, Los Angeles, 1960; Metro Theatre, Los Angeles, 1961; Mayflower Theatre, New York, 1962] |
16 | 2 | James, E. L., Clarence Patterson and Tommie McKenzie, The Sixties Almost Killed Me, 1989 |
16 | 3 | Jenkins, Frank S., Nobody, 1992 |
16 | 4 | de Jongh, James and Charles Cleveland, Hail Hail the Gangs!, 1975 [from New York Public Library, Research Libraries] |
51 | 7 | Johnson, Hall, Run, Little Chillun', no date [Molette] |
16 | 5 | Johnson, Herman C., Nowhere To Run, Nowhere to Hide, 1974 |
61 | 8 | Johnson, J. Rosamond, The Entertainers, 1912 |
16 | 6 | Johnson, Regina Vel, The Trap Play, 1976 |
16 | 7 | Jones, John Henry, Wear No Bandana, 1960 |
38 | 7 | Jones, LeRoi, Dutchman, no date |
16 | 8 | Jones, Silas, Waiting for Mongo, 1975 [produced: Negro Ensemble Company, 1975] |
51 | 8 | Joplin, Scott, Tremonisha Opera, no date [Molette] |
16 | 9 | Jordan, Norman, A Cadillac Dream Workshop, 1967 [produced: Negro Ensemble Co, 1976] |
65 | 3 | Kander, John and Fred Ebb, The Son of Man, 1976 |
16 | 10 | Kekana, David, Dan Maredi, Themba Ntinga, and Seth Sibanda, Survival, 1977 |
16 | 11 | Kelley, Norman, Pre-Flight: The Mississippi Earth Stompers, no date |
38 | 8 | Kennedy, Adrienne, Funny House of a Negro, 1964 [2 versions] |
52 | 1 | Kennedy, Adrienne, Sleep Deprivation, no date [Molette] |
52 | 2 | Kierland, Joseph Scott, Sunday, no date |
52 | 3 | Killens, John O., Cotillion, no date |
39 | 1 | Killens, John O., Lower than the Angels, 1960 |
17 | 1 | Kinoy, Ernest, Leadbelly, 1973 [film script] |
61 | 9 | King, Billy, Blackville Guards in the Philippines, 1909 |
52 | 4 | Kranes, David, Clayton Riley, David J. Magidson, and Ted Shine, Moving!, 1971 |
17 | 2 | Kurtz, Cleveland, Sarge, 1974 |
17 | 3 | Kya-Hill, Robert, The Trial of Secundus Generation Blackman versus Hannah and William A. Blackman, 1968 [Acc. 2004-06-01] |
52 | 5 | Kya-Hill, Robert, The System, 1965 |
52 | 6 | Lamensdorf, Leonard, One on One, no date |
52 | 7 | Landon, Michael, The Wish, 1968 |
94 | 4 | Langford, Arthur, Jr., The Life of a King, 1969 |
17 | 4 | Lantz, Lou and Oscar Saul, Revolt of the Beavers, 1937 [Library of Congress, Federal Theatre Project Records] |
17 | 5 | Lascelles, Kendrew and Melvin Van Peebles, Star: A Reggae Musical, 1970 |
17 | 6 | Lateef, Yusef, Outgame, 1972 |
52 | 8 | Lauro, Shirley, Open Admissions, no date |
39 | 2 | Lauture, Denize, Child of the Mango Tree, 1998 |
39 | 3 | Leaf, Paul, Hang 'em HighBaby!, no date |
17 | 7 | LeBlanc, Whitney, Dreams Deferred, 1972 [produced: Martinique Theatre, 1975]; revised 1985 |
53 | 3 | Lee, James, The Shoeshine Parlor, 1975 |
52 | 9 | Lee, Leslie E., All Around the Gumdrop, 1968 |
52 | 10 | Lee, Leslie E., Between Now and Then, 1982 |
52 | 11 | Lee, Leslie E., Lucretia, no date |
53 | 1 | Lee, Leslie E., The Rabbit Foot (2), 1987 |
53 | 2 | Lee, Leslie E., The Rabbit Foot (3), 1987 |
17 | 8 | Lee, Leslie, The Rabbit Foot, 1987 |
17 | 9 | Lee, Leslie, Spirit North, 1996 |
18 | 1 | Lee, Leslie E., The First Breeze of Summer, 1973 [produced: Negro Ensemble Co., 1975; contains 5 miscellaneous personal note cards.] |
39 | 4 | LeJeune, Therese, Black Caesar, no date |
53 | 4 | Lewis, Ruth and Noah Lewis, Unknown title, no date |
18 | 2 | Lipscomb, G. D., Frances-A Play in One Act, 1925 |
39 | 5 | Lipton, Victor, Get Lost!, 1988 |
18 | 3 | Littleway, Lorna, Phyllis Wheatley: The Celestial Muse, 1979 |
18 | 4 | Littleway, Lorna C., For Love or Freedom, 1984 [about Sally Hemmings and Phyllis Wheatley] |
18 | 5 | Loftin, Wayne, Experiment II, 1976 |
18 | 6 | Lucas, W. F., Patent Leather Sunday, 1967 |
65 | 4 | Macbeth, Robert, African American Intercourse: An Ethnological Farce, circa 2008 |
18 | 7 | Mackey, William Wellington, Behold! Cometh the Vanderkellans, 1966 |
62 | 2 | Mackey, William Wellington, Behold! Cometh the Vanderkellans, 1970 |
53 | 5 | Margulies, Donald, Resting Place, 1980 |
53 | 6 | Marlow, Laurie and Loretta Greene, Community, no date |
18 | 8 | Marvin X, The Black Bird, 1969 |
53 | 7 | Mason, Clifford, Midnight Special, 1971 |
18 | 9 | Mason, Clifford, Royal Oak, 1982 [performed: Long Island University, 1987] |
18 | 10 | Mason, Clifford, Sister Sadie, 1968 [produced: Eugene O'Neill Playwrights Conference, 1968; Mark Taper Forum, 1968; La Mama Etc., 1973; New Dramatists, 1975] |
18 | 11 | Mason, Keith Antar, Black History Month in Apartment Two Thirteen, 1994 |
18 | 12 | Matheus, John F. and Clarence Cameron White (music), Tambour, 1929 |
18 | 13 | Matura, Mustapha, The Coup: A Play of Revolutionary Dreams, 1991 |
19 | 1 | Matz, Charles, Columbus, the Moor, 1988 |
19 | 2 | Mayfield, Julian, 417, no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
19 | 3 | Mayfield, Julian, Black Hands, no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
19 | 4 | Mayfield, Julian, Fount of the Nation, no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
40 | 1 | Mayfield, Julian and Robert K. Sharpe, The Long Night, no date [screenplay] |
19 | 5 | Mayo, Sandra, (editor), "Dramatic Monologues from African-American Literature for Study and Performance," 1979 |
19 | 6 | McConachie, B. A., Goin' Home to Freedom, 1985 [adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin] |
53 | 8 | McIver, Ray, The Fly in the Coffin, no date [Molette] |
65 | 5 | McIver, Ray, God Is a (Guess What?), no date |
19 | 7 | McIver, Ray, God Is a (Guess What?), 1968 [produced: Negro Ensemble Co., 1968] (2 copies) |
65 | 6 | McIver, Ray, God Is a& Candy-man Beechum, no date |
65 | 7 | McIver, Ray, God Is a Nigger, no date |
19 | 8 | McPherson, Andrew, End of the Line, 1973 |
19 | 9 | Miller, Flournoy and Aubrey Lyles, Shuffle Along, 1922 [musical] |
62 | 2 | Miller, Flournoy and Aubrey Lyles, The One Leg Man, 1915 |
19 | 10 | Miller, Flournoy E. and James P. Johnson (music), Sugar Hill, 1950 |
19 | 11 | Miller, Laura Ann, Freight Train, 1969 |
19 | 12 | Miller, May, The Bog Guide, 1925 |
20 | 1 | Miller, May, Nails and Thorns, no date |
20 | 2 | Milner, Ron, M(Ego) and the Green Ball of Freedom, 1971 |
20 | 3 | Milner, Ron, What the Wine-Sellers Buy, 1973 [produced: Henry Street Settlement House, New York City, 1973; Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1973; New York Shakespeare Festival, 1974] |
20 | 4 | Mitchell, Joseph S., Help Wanted, 1929 |
54 | 1 | Mitchell, Loften, The Phonograph, no date [Molette] |
20 | 5 | Mitchell, Loften, The Phonograph: Scenes in the Life of a Harlem Family, 1974 [produced: Binghamton, NY, 1974] |
54 | 2 | Mitchell, Loften, Sojourn to the South of the Wall, no date [Molette] |
20 | 6 | Mitchell, Loften, Star of the Morning, no date [film script] |
20 | 7 | Molette, Barbara and Carlton Molette, Fortunes of the Moor, 1995 |
20 | 8 | Molette, Barbara and Carlton Molette, Presidential Timber, 2001 |
20 | 9 | Molette, Barbara J., Perfect Fifth, 1989 |
20 | 10 | Molette, Carlton and Barbara Molette, Rosalee Pritchett, 1970 [Originally bound with Clarence Young III's The Perry's Mission, performed: Morehouse Spelman Players, 1970; Negro Ensemble Company, 1971] |
20 | 11 | Molette, Carlton, II and Barbara Molette, Booji, 1972 [produced: Atlanta University Summer Theatre, 1971; Morehouse-Spelman Players, Atlanta, 1972; Televised, KPRC-TV, Houston, 1982] |
21 | 1 | Molette, Carlton, II, Barbara Molette, and Charles Mann, Doctor B. S. Black, 1969 [Morehouse-Spelman Players, Atlanta, 1970; Negro Ensemble Co., NYC, 1971] (2 copies, one with program and detail notes) |
21 | 2 | Molette, Carlton, II, Barbara Molette, and Charles Mann, Doctor B. S. Black, 1972 [musical score] |
21 | 3 | Morgan, Barbara White, An American Tract, 1988 |
21 | 4 | Morgan, Barbara White, The Dance Begins When the Waltz Goes Backwards, 1994 |
21 | 5 | Morgan, Karen A., All Summer Long, 1981 |
21 | 6 | Morris, Garrett, The Secret Place, 1975 [produced: E. Douglass Creative Art Center in association with La Mama, etc., 1975] |
21 | 7 | Moultrie, Jacob, Wolves in Sheep's Clothing, 1993 |
21 | 8 | Mygatt, Tracy D., The Noose, 1929 |
21 | 9 | Nathan, Paul S., Emperor, 1984 [adapted from The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuscinski] |
22 | 1 | National Play Bureau (Works Project Administration, Federal Theatre Project), 57 Vaudeville Sketches, 1937 |
22 | 2 | National Play Bureau (Works Project Administration, Federal Theatre Project), 72 Vaudeville Sketches, 1937 |
66 | 1 | Ndao, Cheik A., The Exile of Albouri, translated by Baldwin W. Burroughs, no date |
22 | 3 | Neal, Larry, The Glorious Monster in the Bell of the Horn, 1976 [produced: New Federal Theatre, 1976] |
22 | 4 | Neal, Larry, In an Upstate Motel, 1980 [produced: Negro Ensemble Company, New York City, 1981] |
40 | 2 | Nimeroff, Robert, Raisin, no date |
22 | 5 | Nesmith, Nathaniel G., Who's Passing For Who?, 1979 [adapted from a story by Langston Hughes] |
22 | 6 | Oakley, G. William and Michael Hulett, Storyville, The New Orleans Jazz Musical, 1982 (revised) [Title changed to Basin Street. Music by Turk Murphy] |
54 | 4 | O'Brien, Conor Cruise, Murderous Angels, 1969. |
54 | 5 | Ogot, Grace, Oganda's Journey, 1965; and Soyinka, Wole, Camwood on the Leaves, no date [Molette] |
54 | 6 | Osborne, Lynne, Highway to Heaven, no date |
22 | 7 | Osborne, Peggy Adams, The Meeting, 1968 |
22 | 8 | Overstreet, Joe, Steve Cannon, and Corrine Jennings, Snakeshiiit, 1975 |
22 | 9 | Overton, Janet, Crossroads, 1988 |
22 | 10 | Owens, Daniel W., What Reason Could I Give?, 1972 [version 1] |
22 | 11 | Owens, Daniel W., What Reason Could I Give?, 1972 [version 2] |
22 | 12 | OyamO, I Am a Man, 1993 |
23 | 1 | OyamO, Mary Goldstein and the Author, 1978 [author's name also noted as Charles F. Gordon] |
54 | 7 | Oyono-Mbia, Guillaume, Three Suitors: One Husband, no date [Molette] |
54 | 8 | Palmer, Jon Phillip, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 1973 |
62 | 12 | Parris-Bailey, Linda, Ce Nitram Secul, 1993 |
23 | 2 | Patton, Lynda, Drink the Contents of This Vial, 1981 |
23 | 3 | Patton, Lynda, Skip and Stephanie, 1984 |
23 | 4 | Pawley, Thomas, Blood on the Moon, 2000 |
23 | 5 | Pawley, Thomas, Crispus Attucks, 1948 [produced: University of Iowa, 1948] |
23 | 6 | Pawley, Thomas, The Eunuchs, 1978 [version 1] |
23 | 7 | Pawley, Thomas, The Eunuchs, 1989 [version 2] |
23 | 8 | Pawley, Thomas, FFV, (First Family of Virginia), 1963 |
66 | 2 | Pawley, Thomas, FFV and Tumult, 1963 |
23 | 9 | Pawley, Thomas, The Long Lonesome Ride of Charley Young, 1984 |
23 | 10 | Pawley, Thomas, Messiah, 1948 [produced: State University of Iowa, 1948] |
23 | 11 | Pawley, Thomas, Son of Liberty, (incomplete) no date |
24 | 1 | Perry, Shaueille, Things of the Heart: Marion Anderson's Story, 1981 [includes teacher's manual] |
- | - | Perry, Shaneille and Zaida Coles, November 12, 1985 (Tape 1 of 3) (Side A) [original: audiocasette] |
- | - | Perry, Shaneille and Zaida Coles, November 12, 1985 (Tape 1 of 3) (Side B) [original: audiocasette] |
- | - | Perry, Shaneille and Zaida Coles, November 12, 1985 (Tape 2 of 3) (Side A) [original: audiocasette] |
- | - | Perry, Shaneille and Zaida Coles, November 12, 1985 (Tape 2 of 3) (Side B) [original: audiocasette] |
- | - | Perry, Shaneille and Zaida Coles, November 11, 1985 (Tape 3 of 3) (Side A) [original: audiocasette] |
- | - | Perry, Shaneille and Zaida Coles, November 11, 1985 (Tape 3 of 3) (Side B) [original: audiocasette] |
40 | 3 | Pinero, Miguel, The Sun Always Shines for the Cool, no date |
24 | 2 | Pole, Charles, 40 Years.......Later, pre-1975 |
24 | 3 | Pollard, Al, Laser Beam, 1972 |
24 | 4 | Pomo Afro Homos (Brian Freeman), Dark Fruit, 1991 [includes letter by Freeman to James Hatch] |
24 | 5 | Potts, James E., An Unfinished Portrait, 1971 |
63 | 1 | Price, Robert E., Blackcat Bones for Seven Sons, 1978 |
66 | 3 | Pugh, Evelyn M. and Beulah Bell Morris, The Son of Man, 1976 |
24 | 6 | Qualles, Paris H., A Song for My People, 1977 [based on a novel by William Carlisle] |
24 | 7 | Radinson, Nelson, Exile in the Kingdom, 1972 (2 copies) |
24 | 8 | Rahman, Aishah, Chiaroscuro, no date |
24 | 9 | Rahman, Aishah, Music is my Metaphor: 3 Plays with Music [includes Anybody Seen Marie Laveau, The Tale of Madame Zora, Lady Day: A Musical Tragedy] 1996 (1 of 3) |
24 | 10 | Rahman, Aishah, Music is my Metaphor: 3 Plays with Music, 1996 (2 of 3) |
24 | 11 | Rahman, Aishah, Music is my Metaphor: 3 Plays with Music, 1996 (3 of 3) |
24 | 12 | Rahman, Aishah and Archie Shepp (music) Lady Day: A Musical Tragedy, 1971 |
55 | 1 | Raver, Carroll Johnny, I'd Rather See You Dead, 1970 |
55 | 2 | Reed, Ishmael, Hell Hath No Fury, no date |
- | - | Riberio, Joaqui [See Subseries 5.1, Langston Hughes collection: Miscellaneous] |
40 | 4 | Richardson, Matthew, Afro-American Productions, no date |
24 | 13 | Richardson, Willis, The Amateur Prostitute, no date |
24 | 14 | Richardson, Willis, Antonio Maceo, 1935 [children's play] |
24 | 15 | Richardson, Willis, The Black Horseman, no date |
24 | 16 | Richardson, Willis, Bold Lover, no date (2 copies) |
24 | 17 | Richardson, Willis, The Bootblack Lover, 1926 |
25 | 1 | Richardson, Willis, The Broken Banjo, 1965 [version 1] |
25 | 2 | Richardson, Willis, The Broken Banjo, 1965 [version 2] |
25 | 3 | Richardson, Willis, The Brown Boy, 192? |
25 | 4 | Richardson, Willis, The Chipwoman's Fortune, 1921 (2 copies) |
25 | 5 | Richardson, Willis, The Compromise, 1925 |
25 | 6 | Richardson, Willis, The Dark Haven, 192? |
25 | 7 | Richardson, Willis, The Dragon's Tooth, 1921 [children's play] |
25 | 8 | Richardson, Willis, Family Discord, 192? |
25 | 9 | Richardson, Willis, Fight for Freedom, 193? |
25 | 10 | Richardson, Willis, Flight of the Natives, 1963 |
25 | 11 | Richardson, Willis, The Gypsy's Finger Ring, 1921 [children's play] |
25 | 12 | Richardson, Willis, Hope of the Lowly, 192? |
25 | 13 | Richardson, Willis, The House of Sham, 1929 [won first prize in One Act Play Tournament of the Washington Federation of Dramatic Clubs, 1930] |
25 | 14 | Richardson, Willis, Imp of the Devil, 192? |
25 | 15 | Richardson, Willis, In Menelek's Court, 192? [children's play] |
25 | 16 | Richardson, Willis, Invitation to a Duel, 193? |
26 | 1 | Richardson, Willis, Joy Rider, 1969 |
26 | 2 | Richardson, Willis, The King's Dilemma, 1921 [6 plays for children including: The Dragon's Tooth, The Gypsy's Finger Ring, Near Calvary, an Easter Play, The New Santa Claus, a Christmas Play, and Man of Magic] |
26 | 3 | Richardson, Willis, Man of Magic, 1956 |
26 | 4 | Richardson, Willis, Miss or Mrs., 1941 (2 copies) and variant title Miss or Mistress |
26 | 5 | Richardson, Willis, Mortgaged, no date |
26 | 6 | Richardson, Willis, The New Generation, 1926 |
26 | 7 | Richardson, Willis, The New Lodgers, no date |
26 | 8 | Richardson, Willis, The New Santa Claus, 1956 [Christmas play for children] |
26 | 9 | Richardson, Willis, The Nude Siren, no date (2 copies) |
26 | 10 | Richardson, Willis, The Peacock's Feathers, 1928 (2 copies) |
26 | 11 | Richardson, Willis, A Pillar of the Church, no date |
26 | 12 | Richardson, Willis, Sammy Holds the Key, no date [child's play] |
26 | 13 | Richardson, Willis, She's Getting Married, no date |
26 | 14 | Richardson, Willis, A Stranger From Beyond, no date (2 copies) |
26 | 15 | Richardson, Willis, Victims, no date |
26 | 16 | Richardson, Willis, The Visiting Lady, 1967 |
26 | 17 | Richardson, Willis, The Wine Seller, 1927 |
55 | 3 | Riley, Clayton, Raffle, 1971 [Molette] |
27 | 1 | Rivers, Conrad Kent, Who's Afraid of Malcolm X, 1967 |
27 | 2 | Rivers, Lou, The Promise, no date |
27 | 3 | Rivers, Lou [Paul Mulet], The Scabs, 1962 [with music] |
27 | 4 | Robson, William N., Open Letter on Race Hatred, 1944 [radio drama] |
27 | 5 | Roderick, D. B., Blues for Kingston Street, 1975 [film script] (1 of 2) |
27 | 6 | Roderick, D. B., Blues for Kingston Street, 1975 (2 of 2) |
27 | 7 | Rosier, Mel, Maddog, 1971 |
40 | 5 | Roskolenko, Harry, The Automat, no date |
27 | 8 | Ruffin, Clyde, Ain't No Tap Dancin' Allowed, 1979 |
27 | 9 | Ruffin, Clyde, Hopes, Dreams, and Secrets, 1980 |
27 | 10 | Ruffin, Clyde, In the Image of God: Pre-Congress Musical, 1980 |
27 | 11 | Ruffin, Clyde, Langston Lives, 1978 |
27 | 12 | Ruffin, Clyde, Like a Tree Planted, 1977 |
27 | 13 | Ruffin, Clyde, Speak to Me of Love, 1979 [includes author's resume] |
27 | 14 | Russell, Charlie, Five on the Black Hand Side, 1969 |
27 | 15 | Russell, Charlie, Gladys, 1969 |
27 | 16 | Salaam, Kalamu Ya [Val Ferdinand], Black Liberation Army, 1969 |
27 | 17 | Salaam, Kalamu Ya [Val Ferdinand], Blk Love Song #1, 1969 [revised 1995] |
27 | 18 | Salaam, Kalamu Ya [Val Ferdinand], The Breath of Life, no date |
27 | 19 | Salaam, Kalamu Ya [Val Ferdinand], Homecoming, no date [produced: Free Southern Touring Ensemble, 1969-70] |
27 | 20 | Salaam, Kalamu Ya [Val Ferdinand], Mama, 1969 |
28 | 1 | Salaam, Kalamu Ya [Val Ferdinand], Memories, no date |
28 | 2 | Salaam, Kalamu Ya [Val Ferdinand], The Picket, 1969 |
66 | 4 | Saralegui, Tee, The Ash-can & the Cobra, 2005 |
28 | 3 | Saunders, Frank, Balloons in Her Hair, 1948 |
55 | 4 | Scarborough, Danny L., We Shall Overcome or Else, no date [Molette] |
62 | 4 | Schmitz, Elsie, idea for Good Times [television show], 1975 |
55 | 5 | Schrank, Joseph, Cabin in the Sky, 1942 |
28 | 4 | Schumacher, Joel, Car Wash, 1976 [3rd draft screenplay] |
28 | 5 | Scott, Jesse, The Brothers, no date |
28 | 6 | Scott, Jesse W., A Box of Sunshine, 1958 |
55 | 6 | Scott, John, The Good Ship Credit, 1973 [Molette] |
55 | 7 | Scott, John S., Ride a Black Horse, no date [Molette] |
28 | 7 | Sebree, Charles, The Dry August, 1949 |
56 | 1 | Seiden, Mark, American Drums, no date |
28 | 8 | Shakespeare, William, adapted by John Guare and Mel Shapiro, Two Gentleman of Verona, 1972 [music by Galt MacDermot New York Shakespeare Festival Production, 1972] |
28 | 9 | Shepp, Archie, Revolution, 1969 |
28 | 10 | Shepp, Archie, Skulls, 1969 |
56 | 2 | Sherriff, R. C., Miss Mabel, no date |
28 | 11 | Shine, Ted, Ancestors, no date |
28 | 12 | Shine, Ted, Baby Cakes, 1981 |
56 | 4 | Shine, Ted and Whitney LeBlanc, The Butler's Blues, no date |
28 | 13 | Shine, Ted, Cold Day in August, 1950 [produced: Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1950] |
66 | 5 | Shine, Ted, Comeback after the Fire, no date |
28 | 14 | Shine, Ted, Comeback after the Fire, 1967 [produced: Institute of Dramatic Arts, Lincoln University, Missouri, 1969] |
28 | 15 | Shine, Ted, Epitaph for a Bluebird, 1957 [version 1: 3 acts] |
29 | 1 | Shine, Ted, Epitaph for a Bluebird, 1958 [version 2: 2 acts] |
29 | 2 | Shine, Ted, Flora's Kisses, no date |
29 | 3 | Shine, Ted, Good Old Soul, 1983 |
29 | 4 | Shine, Ted, Hamburgers at Hamburger Heaven Are Impersonal, 1969 [alternate title: Hamburgers Are Impersonal, produced: Harlem School of the Arts Community Theater, NYC, 1971] |
29 | 5 | Shine, Ted, Idabel's Fortune, 1969 |
29 | 6 | Shine, Ted, Miss Weaver, or Sho Is Hot in the Cotton Patch, 1951 [later version of play produced at the Negro Ensemble Company, New York, 1968 as Miss Weaver, earlier version produced when he was a student at Howard, Howard University Theater, Washington, D.C., 1964] |
29 | 7 | Shine, Ted, Morning, Noon, and Night, 1962 [produced: Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1972; Institute in Black Repertory Theatre, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968; Lincoln University, Missouri, 1970] |
29 | 8 | Shine, Ted, Old Grass, 1984 |
29 | 9 | Shine, Ted, Our Street: Strangers, no date [Episode 15: TV series] |
29 | 10 | Shine, Ted, Packard, no date |
56 | 3 | Shine, Ted, Sho is Hot in the Cotton Patch, no date [Molette] |
29 | 11 | Shine, Ted, Waiting Room, no date |
29 | 12 | Shine, Ted, The Woman Who Was Tampered with in Youth, 1979 [produced: Starlight Lounge, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1980] |
56 | 5 | Shockley, Ann, Allen Tragedy on Frederic Douglass Street, no date |
40 | 6 | Siegal, Mordecai, Shayna, 1970 |
56 | 6 | Silvera, John D. and Abram Hill, Liberty Deferred, no date |
56 | 7 | Smith, J. A., Just Ten Days, no date |
29 | 13 | Smith, Theodore P., Boys Without Pennies, no date |
57 | 1 | Solinas, Franco, Queimada, 1968 |
57 | 2 | Soyinka, Wole, A Play of Giants, no date [Molette] |
29 | 14 | Soyinka, Wole, Kongi's Harvest, 1967 |
57 | 3 | Soyinka, Wole, The Lion and the Jewel, no date [Molette] |
41 | 1 | Soyinka, Wole, The Strong Breed, 1967 |
29 | 15 | Soyinka, Wole, The Trials of Brother Jero, 1966 |
29 | 16 | Spence, Eulalie, The Hunch, 1927 |
29 | 17 | Spence, Eulalie, The Starter: A Comedy of Harlem Life, 1927 |
57 | 4 | Spence, Eulalie, Undertow, no date |
30 | 1 | Spivey, Terry, The Village Creek Wolverines, 1990 [film script] (1 of 2) |
30 | 2 | Spivey, Terry, The Village Creek Wolverines, 1990 [film script] (2 of 2) |
30 | 3 | Stetson, Helen Sloan, Turpentine Boy, no date |
57 | 5 | Stetson, Jeff, Fraternity, 1987 |
57 | 6 | Stetson, Jeff, To Find a Man, 1984 |
30 | 4 | Stockard, Sharon, Proper and Fine, Fanny Lou Hammer's Entourage, 1968 |
67 | 1 | Sutherland, Efua Theodora, Anase and the Dwarf Brigade, no date |
30 | 5 | Swanson, Walter, Negerinde, 1970 |
57 | 7 | Taylor, Stephen, The Third Step, no date |
30 | 6 | Terry-Morgan, Elmo and Clarence Laverne Thompson (music and arrangements), Ophelia's Cotillion: An Invitation to the Nightmare Years, 1995 [revised 1997] |
58 | 1 | Tidyman, Ernest, Line of Duty, 1975 |
30 | 7 | Tillman, Katherine D., Aunt Betsy's Thanksgiving, 1910 |
30 | 8 | Towns, George A., The Sharecropper, 1932 |
30 | 9 | Trenier, Diane, Rich Black Heritage, 1970 |
30 | 10 | Trent, Hattie Covington, Founding and Progress of the A.M.E. Zion Church, 1945 |
41 | 2 | Turbeville, Ron, Skeeter Magee, no date |
30 | 11 | Turner, Beth, Ode to Mariah, 1977 |
58 | 2 | Udell, Peter, Purlie, no date |
41 | 3 | Uhry, Alfred, Driving Miss Daisy, 1986 |
67 | 2 | Unidentified author, Plain Folk, 1977 |
61 | 1 | Unidentified author, untitled play, no date [about turning blacks into whites] |
58 | 3 | Unger, Robert, Bohkee, 1990 |
30 | 12 | Van Dolzen Pease, Josephine and Zora Neale Hurston, Plantation Play: Three Authentic Folk Dances from the Deep South, 1936 [children's play, Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
30 | 13 | Van Dyke, Elizabeth, Lorraine Hansberry: Like a Mourning Dove, Like an Eagle in the Air, 1980 [adaptation from Hansberry's papers] |
58 | 4 | Van Means, John, III, The Cold Grey Dawn of Morning, 1974 |
58 | 5 | Van Means, John, III, The Double Triple Cross, 1972 |
58 | 6 | Van Means, John, III, The Four Minute Dream Mile, 1972 |
58 | 7 | Van Means, John, III, The Last Hit, 1972 |
58 | 8 | Van Means, John, III, A Man Without Property, 1972 |
59 | 1 | Van Means, John, III, The Man Who Was Ten Years Old, 1972 |
59 | 2 | Van Means, John, III, The Mogul Trident Group, 1972 |
59 | 3 | Van Means, John, III, Sherif De Leon, 1973 |
59 | 4 | Van Means, John, III and Maurice Peterson, Come to the Table, 1973 |
31 | 1 | Van Peebles, Melvin, Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death, no date |
31 | 2 | Van Peebles, Melvin, The Champeen, 1980 |
63 | 2 | Van Peebles, Melvin, Kenneth Vose, and Lawrence DuKore, Greased Lightning, 1976 [3rd draft screenplay] |
41 | 4 | Van Peebles, Melvin, Kenneth Vose, and Lawrence DuKore, Greased Lightning, 1976 |
42 | 5 | Van Peebles, Melvin, Herschel and Louis, no date |
31 | 3 | Van Scott, Glory, The Bencher, 1974 |
31 | 4 | Van Scott, Glory, Children's Ceremony, 1974 |
31 | 5 | Van Scott, Glory, I Am, 1974 |
31 | 6 | Van Scott, Glory, Poetic Suite on Arabs and Israelis, 1969 |
31 | 7 | Van Scott, Glory, The Syvilla Suite, 1976 |
42 | 6 | Vane, Norman Thaddeus, The Alligators are Coming, 1972 |
42 | 1 | Vane, Norman Thaddeus, The Expatriate, no date |
63 | 3 | Vaughn, Betty, Sleep on the Wind, no date |
31 | 8 | Wadud, Ali, Kingdom, 1974 |
31 | 9 | Wakefield, Jacques, Brotherly Love, 1972 |
31 | 10 | Walcott, Derek, The Charlatan, no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
31 | 11 | Walcott, Derek, The Dream on Monkey Mountain, 1967 |
59 | 5 | Walcott, Derek, Henri Christophe, no date [Molette] |
31 | 12 | Walcott, Derek, In a Fine Castle, 1972 [film script] |
31 | 13 | Walcott, Derek, Ione, no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
31 | 14 | Walcott, Derek, The Isle Is Full of Noises, no date [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
59 | 6 | Walcott, Derek, Remembrance, no date |
31 | 15 | Walker, Joseph A., The Harangues, 1969 |
32 | 1 | Walker, Joseph A., Ododo, 1968 [musical; produced: Afro-American Studio, NYC, 1968; Negro Ensemble Company, NYC, 1970; La Mont Zeno Community Theatre, Chicago, 1973; Howard University, Washington, D.C., 1973] [2 versions] |
63 | 8 | Wallace, Naomi, The Liquid Plain (second draft), 2011 |
32 | 2 | Waller, G. Hobson, A Trip to Calgary, 1962 [film script] |
32 | 3 | Walls, Jack, The Bad Angel, 1992 |
32 | 4 | Walls, Jack, The Blonde Bombshell Murder Case, 1992 [film script] |
32 | 5 | Ward, Douglas Turner, Brotherhood, 1970 |
32 | 6 | Ward, Douglas Turner, Day of Absence, 1960 |
32 | 7 | Ward, Douglas Turner, Happy Ending, 1962 |
32 | 8 | Ward, Douglas Turner, The Reckoning, 1970 |
67 | 3 | Ward, Douglas Turner, Two One-Act Plays, no date |
59 | 7 | Ward, Theodore, Our Lan', 1941 [Molette] |
32 | 9 | Weaver, Afaa Michael, Berea, 1996 |
32 | 10 | Weaver, Afaa Michael, The Sleeping Heart, 1994 |
32 | 11 | Weaver, Afaa Michael, Elvira and the Lost Prince, 1989 |
32 | 12 | Weaver, Afaa Michael, The Hammer, 1991 |
32 | 13 | Weaver, Afaa Michael, Rosa, 1986 |
32 | 14 | Weiss, Peter, Song of the Lusitanian Bogey, 1968 |
32 | 15 | Wesley, Richard, Ace Boon Coon, 1971 |
33 | 1 | Wesley, Richard, Alicia (Goin' Thru Changes), 1973 |
59 | 8 | Wesley, Richard, The Black Terror, 1970 [Molette] |
33 | 2 | Wesley, Richard, Gettin' It Together, A Steady Rapp, 1970 |
42 | 2 | Wesley, Richard, Shoot Out, (story by Sidney Poitier), 1983 |
33 | 3 | Wesley, Richard, Strike Heaven on the Face: Visions of a Tortured Soul, 1972 [Schomburg Collection, New York Public Library] |
33 | 4 | West, Robert Edward, Mambo Medea, 1972 (2 copies, one is the production script) |
42 | 3 | Whitecross, Iain, Fanny Kemble, 1981 |
33 | 5 | Whitney, Elvie, Angela Is Happening, 1971 (2 copies) |
33 | 6 | Williams, E.C., and Willis Richardson, Chasm, 1926 |
42 | 4 | Williams, Granvilette, Pros, [1984] |
60 | 1 | Williams, John A., Sons of Darkness, Sons of Light, no date |
60 | 2 | Williams, Marshall, A Tear for Judas, no date |
42 | 5 | Williams, Oscar, Hot Potato, no date |
60 | 3 | Williams, Samm-Art, Brass Birds Don't Sing, 1977 |
60 | 4 | Williams, Samm-Art, Cork, 1984 |
60 | 5 | Williams, Samm-Art, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Homeboy, Sweet Homeboy, 1990 |
33 | 7 | Williams, Samm-Art, Welcome to Black River, 1974 |
60 | 6 | Wilson, Arthur Theodore, Thunderbird Thorns Called H-O-M-E, 1991 |
33 | 8 | Wilson, August, Fences, no date |
60 | 7 | Wilson, August, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, 1984 |
33 | 9 | Wilson, August, The Piano Lesson, no date (1 of 2) |
33 | 10 | Wilson, August, The Piano Lesson, no date (2 of 2) |
62 | 5 | Wilson, August, Two Trains Running, 1989 |
33 | 11 | Wilson, August, Two Trains Running, 1992 |
34 | 1 | Wilson, Frank, Brother Mose, 1937 [original title: Meek Mose, Federal Theatre Project Collection, Library of Congress.] |
34 | 2 | Wolfe, George C., Backalley Tales, 1980 |
63 | 9 | Woolner, Lawrence and Larry LeBron, HYDE, 1975 [film script; shooting script for Blaxploitation film Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde, 1976] |
34 | 3 | Wright, Jay, Balloons, 1968 |
34 | 4 | Wright, Richard, Daddy Goodness, 1956 [translated and adapted for the American stage from an original play by Louis Sapin] |
34 | 5 | Wright, Richard, Gott Ist Anders /Man, God Ain't Like That, 1959 [English and German translation copies for 1976 radio plays, Hamburg, Germany] |
34 | 6 | Wright, Richard, (adapted by Newlon Neil), Lawd Today, no date |
34 | 7 | Wright, Richard, Man of All Work /Mädchen Für Alles, 1960 [English and German translation copies for 1976 radio plays, Hamburg, Germany] |
60 | 8 | Wynn, Tracy Keenan, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, 1973 [Molette] |
93 | 3 | Young, Otis T., Tell It Like It Is: A Play in Three Acts, circa late 1960s-1970s |
93 | 4 | Young, Otis T., Tell It Like It Is: A Play in Three Acts concept art for stage production, circa late 1960s-1970s |
34 | 8 | Young, Clarence, III, The Perry's Mission, 1969 [produced: African Cultural Center, Buffalo, NY, 1969; Negro Ensemble Company, NYC, 1971; Spelman College, Atlanta, 1972, 2 copies] [See also Molette, Carlton and Barbara Molette, Rosalee Pritchett] |
94 | 3 | Yirenchi, Emmanuel A. Amma Pranaa: An Ananse Play, undated |
60 | 9 | Zambrano, Jacqueline and Coleman Luck, Gabriel's Fire, 1990 [Molette] |