The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks

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The Roots of African American drama : an anthology of early plays, 1858-1938

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Legacy project. Larry Kramer in conversation with George C. Wolfe

“…Larry Kramer with George C. Wolfe…”
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The show makers : great directors of the American musical theatre by Thelen, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “….-- Des McAnuff -- Mike Ockrent -- Tom O'Horgan -- Harold Prince -- Jerome Robbins -- George C. Wolfe -- Jerry Zaks.…”
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Furiously Funny : Comic Rage from Ralph Ellison to Chris Rock. by Tucker, Terrence T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle -- Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century -- Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock -- Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity.…”
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Furiously funny : comic rage in late 20th century African-American literature by Tucker, Terrence T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: A joke to the eye -- (Re)viewing Ellison's Invisible Man: comedy, rage, and cultural tradition in an African-American classic -- Dick Gregory, Moms Mabley, and Redd Foxx: African-American humor, stand-up comedy, and comic rage in mainstream America -- From absence to flight: comic rage in the black arts/black power movements, 1966-1976 -- Fury in the "promised land": comic rage in George C. Wolfe's The Colored Museum and Paul Beatty's The White Boy Shuffle -- Hollywood shuffle and bamboozled: comic rage, black film, and popular culture at the end of the century -- Direct from a never scared bicentennial nigger: comic rage in Richard Pryor, Whoopi Goldberg, and Chris Rock -- Conclusion: on being pissed off to the highest degree of pissivity.…”
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Focus on playwrights : portraits and Interviews by Johann, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Gurney -- Robert Patrick -- Marsha Norman -- Craig Lucas -- Christopher Durang -- Sidney Kingsley -- Sarah Ruhl -- Arthur Miller -- Garson Kanin -- Christopher Shinn -- Edward Albee -- Acknowledgments -- Index of playwrights -- About the author -- Photographs: Edward Albee -- Bill Irwin -- Beth Henley -- John Schenkar -- Ed Bullins -- Seven playwrights -- Spalding Gray -- William Finn -- August Wilson -- Steven Drukman -- George C. Wolfe -- Polly Pen -- Eduardo Machado -- Sybille Pearson -- Tom Stoppard -- Adam Rapp -- John Ford Noonan -- George Abbott -- Abbott's country desk -- Romulus Linney -- Nicky Silver -- Jeffrey Hatcher -- John Patrick Shanley -- Suzan-Lori Parks -- Adrienne Kennedy -- Reinaldo Povod -- Sam Shepard -- Keith Glover -- Wendy Wasserstein -- A.R. …”
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Wrestling with angels : playwright Tony Kushner

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Post-soul satire : black identity after civil rights

Table of Contents: “…Ashe -- Touré, ecstatic consumption, and Soul city: satire and the problem of monoculture / Linda Furgerson Selzer -- "I felt like I was part of the troop": satire, feminist narratology, and the community / Brandon Manning -- Pilgrims in an unholy land: satire and the challenge of African American leadership in The boondocks and The White boy shuffle / Cameron Leader-Picone -- Dissimulating Blackness: the degenerative satires of Paul Beatty and Percival Everett / Christian Schmidt -- "It's a Black thang maybe": satirical Blackness in Percival Everett's Erasure and Adam Mansbach's Angry Black White boy / Danielle Fuentes Morgan -- Coal, charcoal, and chocolate comedy: the satire of John Killens and Matt Johnson / Keenan Norris -- How a mama on the couch evolves into a Black man with watermelon: George C. Wolfe, Suzan-Lori Parks, and the theatre of "colored contradictions" / Jennifer Larson -- "Slaves? …”
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