Today’s post will feature a Detroit playwright: the late Ron Milner. His plays: What the Wine Sellers Buy, Checkmates, and Jazz Set were performed in several theaters in the U.S. I had the honor and pleasure of meeting him. He was intelligent, creative, politically and socially astute. I enjoyed watching his plays.
Today will focus on anthologies featuring African American Drama.
Book 1: Black Theater USA by James V. Hatch and Ted Shine
Book 2: Black Thunder An Anthology of Contemporary African American Drama edited by William B. Branch
Author and Playwright Pearl Cleage is Day 20 Woman of the Day. A prolific writer of several books and plays including “What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day”, “Flying West” and more. Read more about this multitalented writer below.
Website: http://www.pearlcleage.net/
NPR: http://www.npr.org/2014/05/01/308619983/playwright-pearl-cleage-opens-up
Black Past.org: http://www.blackpast.org/aah/cleage-pearl-1948
Youtube videos: AARP Black Community Bookclub: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wL-F6BrDFRg, reading from her memoir “Things I Should Have Told My Daugher”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnFkhlQJZHg
The CamaraIfe Maktaba 