Eleven sketches, "exhibits" in the Colored Museum, offer a humorous and irreverent look at slavery, Black cuisine, soldiers, family life, performers, and parties. "The Colored Museum has electrified, discomforted, and delighted audiences of all colors, redefining our ideas of what it means to be black in contemporary America. Its eleven "exhibits" undermine black stereotypes old and new, and return to the facts of what being black means." -- Provided...

"As the first African American woman to have a play professionally produced in New York City (Gold Through the Trees, in 1952) and the first woman to win an Obie for Best Play (for Trouble in Mind, in 1956), Alice Childress occupies an important but surprisingly under-recognized place in American drama. She herself rejected an emphasis on the pioneering aspects of her career, saying that "it's almost like it's an honor rather than a disgrace" and...

"A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the twentieth century. As the full force of the horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they telling?"--

"Blending tragedy, typography, the Spaghetti Western, hip-hop and Afropunk, Is God Is is a classic revenge tale about two sisters that looks like no other play. In this necessary new work by playwright Aleshea Harris, emotions are laid bare through gaps in language and characters are a window into the canon as well as our own broken times" -- Publisher's website.