BLACK WORK BROADWAY

Oriental America
(ca. 1896)

A Trip to Coontown (1898)

Clorindy: The Origin
of the Cakewalk (1898)

The Sons of Ham (1899)

The Policy Players (1899)

Jes Lak White Folks (1900)

In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy (1903)

The Southerners (1905)

Abyssinia (1906)

The Shoo–Fly Regiment (1907)

The Oyster Man (1907)

Bandanna Land (1908)

The Red Moon (1909)

Mr. Lode of Koal (1909)

His Honor: the Barber (1911)

Three Showers (1920)

Shuffle Along (1921)

Put and Take (1921)

Strut, Miss Lizzie (1922)

Liza (1922)

The Chip Woman’s Fortune (1923)

Elsie (1923)

How Come? (1923)

Dew Drop Inn (1923)

Runnin’ Wild (1923)

The Chocolate Dandies (1924)

Andre Charlot’s Revue (1924)

Lucky Sambo (1925)

The Fool’s Errand (1927)

Meek Mose
(Brother Mose) (1928)

Keep Shufflin’ (1928)

Harlem (1929)

Hot Chocolates (1929)

Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds (1930)

The Green Pastures (1931)

Chamberlin Brown’s Scrapbook (1932)

Shuffle Along
(1932 Revival)

Run, Little Chillun
(1933)

Mulatto (1935)

Swing It (1937)

The Trial of Dr. Beck (1937)

Big White Fog (1938)

Swingin’ The Dream (1939)

Native Son (1941)

Early to Bed
(1943)

Blue Holiday
(1945)

Beggar’s Holiday
(1946)

Street Scene
(1946)

Our Lan’
(1947)

Troubled Island
(1949)

The Barrier
(1950)

Katherine Dunham
and her Company
(1950)

Shuffle Along
(1952 Revival)

Katherine Dunham and her Company (1955)

Simply Heavenly (1957)

A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Tambourines to Glory (1963)

The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1964)

No Place to Be Somebody (1969)

Les Blancs (1970)

Purlie
(1970)

The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1972 Revival)

Don’t Play Us Cheap! (1972)

The River Niger (1973)

Raisin (1973)

What the Wine-Sellers Buy (1974)

My Sister, My Sister (1974)

Sizwe Banzi is Dead & The Island (1974)

Black Picture Show (1974)

The Wiz (1975)

Treemonisha (1975)

Bubbling Brown Sugar (1976)

for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (1976)

Your Arms Too Short to Box With God (1976)

Eubie! (1978)

But Never Jam Today (1979)

Home (1980)

Reggae (1980)

The Dance Theater of Harlem (1980)

Your Arms Too Short to Box With God
(1980 Return Engagement)

It’s So Nice To Be Civilized (1980)

Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (1981)

Inacent Black (1981)

Your Arms Too Short to Box With God
(1982 Revival)

Blues in the Night (1982)

Amen Corner (1983)

The Wiz
(1984 Revival)

Andre De Shields’ Haarlem Nocturne (1984)

Whoopi Goldberg! Direct From Broadway (1984)

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984)

Uptown … It’s Hot! (1986)

Death and the King’s Horseman (1987)

Fences (1987)

Asinamali! (1987)

Joe Turner's
Come and Gone (1988)

Truly Blessed (1990)

The Piano Lesson (1990)

Mule Bone (1991)

Two Trains Running (1992)

Jelly’s Last Jam (1992)

Song of Jacob Zulu (1993)

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (1994)

Seven Guitars (1996)

Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk (1996)

Play On! (1997)

Patti La Belle on Broadway (1998)

It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (1999)

Kat and the Kings (1999)

Rollin’ on the T.O.B.A (1999)

King Hedley II (2001)

Topdog / Underdog (2002)

One Mo’ Time (2002)

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2003 Revival)

A Raisin in the Sun (2004 Revival)

Drowning Crow (2004)

Whoopi (2004)

Gem of the Ocean (2004)

Bridge & Tunnel (2006)

Hot Feet (2006)

Radio Golf (2007)

Passing Strange (2008)

Fela! (2009)

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2009 Revival)

Fences (2010 Revival)

The Mountaintop (2011)

Stick Fly (2011)

The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (2012)

Motown The Musical (2013)

After Midnight (2013)

A Raisin in the Sun (2014 Revival)

Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed (2016)

Eclipsed (2016)

Jitney (2017)

Sweat (2017)

Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (2018)

Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (2019)

Choir Boy (2019)

Slave Play (2019)

The Tina Turner Musical (2019)

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Gem of the Ocean (2004)

Production still from Gem of the Ocean, 2004

August Wilson (Playwright)

6 December, 2004 – 6 February, 2005

The penultimate entry in August Wilson's 10-play cycle on African-American life in Pittsburgh is set in 1904. Aunt Ester, a 285-year-old former enslaved woman, takes wandering fugitive Citizen Barlow into her home and guides him on a mystical journey toward healing his guilt over the crime he has committed. (Source: Playbill)

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