The impact of race on theatre -- Ghetto art and energy -- Searching for brothers kindred : rhythm & blues of the fifties -- Jazz -- Breaking the rules : educational ethics and ethnicity -- On producing James Brown in Liberia -- On tour in Africa : Zora Neale Hurston -- At the Berlin Wall -- The African American theatre of tomorrow -- Beyond New York : touring and the LORT -- Celebrating black women -- Playwrights -- The restructuring of Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun -- Lorraine Hansberry's children : black artists and a raisin in the sun -- Baraka at the millenium -- Come by Bullins -- Remembering Langston Hughes -- For Shauneille Perry -- Gwendolyn Brooks -- Miss P. J. Gibson -- Laurence Holder -- The plays of Ron Milner -- Festivals -- National Black Theatre Festival : African heritage and kinship -- The impact of race on two cultural festivals in Atlanta -- The eleventh biennial theatre communications group conference -- Woza Afrika! Festival, Sarafina! and the plays of Soyinka -- Women's wear daily critiques Black theatre -- What are black artists and dramatists to do? -- Casting Miss Saigon in a bad light -- In response to John Simon's "Black and blue" -- Left out in London.