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Black Theatre Alliance

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:African-American_theatre

Evaluation; This article is highly underdeveloped. There is a huge lack of information on the achievements that the Black Theatre Alliance had the timeline on the BTA is almost non-existant. Information on who had a big influence on the BTA and Theatre Companies that were involved in the Federation needs to be added. The present day result of the work that the BTA did, the effects that they had on black actors/actresses in the United States needs to be addressed.

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View other theatre companies wikipedia pages New York Theatre wikipedia page, new heritage theatre group, Harlem Reperatory theatre..

African-American musical theater

The African American Musical Theatre Wikipedia page is the page that I will now work to develop. The article is rated as a start class article of low importance and it concludes multiple different contents however they are not very detailed with information that goes indepth of the topics. The early history of black theatre mainly focuses Will Marion Cook and Bob Cole and their contributions to black theatre. The national recognitions section only includes the fame that George Walker and Bert Williams had due to their musicals "Two Real Coons",A Lucky Coon, Sons of Ham, and The Policy Players, and their take on musical theatre connecting it back to Africa up until Walkers death. The section "Lew Leslie's Blackbirds" solely discusses Lew Leslie's success due to the black performers he hired for his shows, I think that A section that included more directors, black directors, success in the United States. The last section in the article is about the opera Porgy and Bess and that fame that it received as a black musical and the article touches upon a few other black comedy musicals and musical versions of the classics that had black casts that rose to fame. I think that the information could go under the section of black musicals that rose to fame, and more information should be added to the already listed musicals. Sections that should be added are; black women in black theatre, more information on the national recognition that black musicals got, information on specific musicals and playwrights, also the effects that black theatre has on society now, and the progress that black theaters have made and the federations that have been created as an effect. Also the references page needs to be developed and updated. Other wikipedia pages on Theater has shown me that different headers and topics that could be included in this article are; types of musical theater that black peoples created and/or worked in such as comedy, tragedy etc, the stagecraft and technical aspects that black theater may have had unique to them.

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Researching information on African America Musical Theater lead me to find alot of interest in African American playwright Mary P. Burrill and her wikipedia page. Mary P. Burrill . This wikipedia page is classified as a star class page of low importance and is connected to the African Diaspora. The wikipedia page needs to include basic things like a picture of Burrill, and the "biography" section of it needs to be split up into different sections such as: early life, career, death, personal life, and a section for the works that she had created. The sections need to go more in depth and build upon the already available information that has been provided and added. Also information like her parents names can go in the small box of information on the right of the article. Also the effect that she had on the African American Theater musical theater community in the early 20th century can also be added onto her page of information.

Early Life

After her family relocated to Boston, Burrill furthered her education, graduating from Emerson College in 1904. Burrill's passion for education prompted her to become an educator herself. From 1905 until her retirement in 1944, Burrill taught English and drama at her alma mater, Dunbar High School. Burrill was well-respected among her students, holding high standards for their education and personal achievement. Some of her students went on to become educators and writers actively involved in the Harlem Renaissance, an African American cultural arts movement during the 1920s. During Burrill's adolescence and early adulthood, she had an emotional and erotic relationship with Angelina Weld Grimke, later a famous poet, educator, and playwright. Letters between the two date back to 1896, when Angelina and Mary were about 15 years old.

Career

In the mid-1920s, at the invitation of Jean Toomer," Johnson hosted literary gatherings in her home, which she called the Half-Way House, to provide a forum for intellectual stimulation and creativity to many of the prominent writers and artists of the Harlem Renaissance. members of the literary club or saturday nighters,

They sit in darkness:

a poor southern black woman named melinda who died in childbirth, leaving behind a husband and four kids, the play humanized the difficulties that women like melinda faced, and it advertised for the legalization of birth control, which would be legalized on March 22 1972

Aftermath

which shares themes and characters with Grimke's play Rachel, is confining physically and mentally, characters carry the weight of knowing that american justice doesnt not apply to black people in america. The play aptly reflects its title, in the play Burrill focused on the effects of the loss of a father, or brother has on the characters in the play, male or female

personal Life

In 1912, while teaching, Burrill met Lucy Diggs Slowe, an English teacher from Baltimore.

Death

Shattered, Burrill moved out of their house and into an apartment near Howard. She retired from Dunbar in 1944. Burrill then moved to New York City, where she lived until her death in 1946, in her early 60's.