Macbeth in Harlem: Black Theater in America from the Beginning to Raisin in the Sun

2020 George Freedley Memorial Award Special Jury Prize from the Theatre Library Association
2021 PROSE Awards Finalist, Music & the Performing Arts

In 1936 Orson Welles directed a celebrated all-black production of Macbeth that was hailed as a breakthrough for African Americans in the theater. For over a century, black performers had fought for the right to perform on the American stage, going all the way back to an 1820s Shakespearean troupe that performed Richard III, Othello, and Macbe...