BLACK WORK BROADWAY

Skeleton Crew (2021)

Slave Play (2021 Revival)

Clyde’s (2021)

Thoughts of a Colored Man (2021)

Trouble in Mind (2021)

Chicken & Biscuits (2021)

Pass Over (2021)

The Tina Turner Musical (2019)

Slave Play (2019)

Choir Boy (2019)

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

Summer: The Donna Summer Musical (2018)

Sweat (2017)

Jitney (2017)

Eclipsed (2016)

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

A Raisin in the Sun (2014 Revival)

After Midnight (2013)

Motown The Musical (2013)

The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (2012)

Stick Fly (2011)

The Mountaintop (2011)

Fences (2010 Revival)

Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (2009 Revival)

Fela! (2009)

Passing Strange (2008)

Radio Golf (2007)

Hot Feet (2006)

Bridge & Tunnel (2006)

Gem of the Ocean (2004)

Whoopi (2004)

Drowning Crow (2004)

A Raisin in the Sun (2004 Revival)

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2003 Revival)

One Mo’ Time (2002)

Topdog / Underdog (2002)

King Hedley II (2001)

Rollin’ on the T.O.B.A (1999)

Kat and the Kings (1999)

It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues (1999)

Patti La Belle on Broadway (1998)

Play On! (1997)

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

Seven Guitars (1996)

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (1994)

Song of Jacob Zulu (1993)

Jelly’s Last Jam (1992)

Two Trains Running (1992)

Mule Bone (1991)

The Piano Lesson (1990)

Truly Blessed (1990)

Joe Turner's
Come and Gone (1988)

Asinamali! (1987)

Fences (1987)

Death and the King’s Horseman (1987)

Uptown … It’s Hot! (1986)

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1984)

Whoopi Goldberg! Direct From Broadway (1984)

Andre De Shields’ Haarlem Nocturne (1984)

The Wiz
(1984 Revival)

Amen Corner (1983)

Blues in the Night (1982)

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

Inacent Black (1981)

Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (1981)

It’s So Nice To Be Civilized (1980)

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

The Dance Theater of Harlem (1980)

Reggae (1980)

Home (1980)

But Never Jam Today (1979)

Eubie! (1978)

Your Arms Too Short to Box With God (1976)

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

Bubbling Brown Sugar (1976)

Treemonisha (1975)

The Wiz (1975)

Black Picture Show (1974)

Sizwe Banzi is Dead & The Island (1974)

My Sister, My Sister (1974)

What the Wine-Sellers Buy (1974)

Raisin (1973)

The River Niger (1973)

Don’t Play Us Cheap! (1972)

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

Purlie
(1970)

Les Blancs (1970)

No Place to Be Somebody (1969)

The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window (1964)

Tambourines to Glory (1963)

A Raisin in the Sun (1959)

Simply Heavenly (1957)

Katherine Dunham and her Company (1955)

Shuffle Along
(1952 Revival)

Katherine Dunham
and her Company
(1950)

The Barrier
(1950)

Troubled Island
(1949)

Our Lan’
(1947)

Street Scene
(1946)

Beggar’s Holiday
(1946)

Blue Holiday
(1945)

Early to Bed
(1943)

Native Son (1941)

Swingin’ The Dream (1939)

Big White Fog (1938)

The Trial of Dr. Beck (1937)

Swing It (1937)

Mulatto (1935)

Run, Little Chillun
(1933)

Shuffle Along
(1932 Revival)

Chamberlin Brown’s Scrapbook (1932)

The Green Pastures (1931)

Lew Leslie’s Blackbirds (1930)

Hot Chocolates (1929)

Harlem (1929)

Keep Shufflin’ (1928)

Meek Mose
(Brother Mose) (1928)

The Fool’s Errand (1927)

Lucky Sambo (1925)

Andre Charlot’s Revue (1924)

The Chocolate Dandies (1924)

Runnin’ Wild (1923)

Dew Drop Inn (1923)

How Come? (1923)

Elsie (1923)

The Chip Woman’s Fortune (1923)

Liza (1922)

Strut, Miss Lizzie (1922)

Put and Take (1921)

Shuffle Along (1921)

Three Showers (1920)

His Honor: the Barber (1911)

Mr. Lode of Koal (1909)

The Red Moon (1909)

Bandanna Land (1908)

The Oyster Man (1907)

The Shoo–Fly Regiment (1907)

Abyssinia (1906)

The Southerners (1905)

In Dahomey: A Negro Musical Comedy (1903)

Jes Lak White Folks (1900)

The Policy Players (1899)

The Sons of Ham (1899)

Clorindy: The Origin
of the Cakewalk (1898)

A Trip to Coontown (1898)

Oriental America
(ca. 1896)

INFO ︎

Truly Blessed
(1990)

Queen Esther Marrow (Playwright)

12 April – 20 May, 1990

Conceived by Queen Esther Marrow; Written by Queen Esther Marrow; Based on the life of Mahalia Jackson; Music by Queen Esther Marrow; Lyrics by Queen Esther.

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