In partnership with ACT, the Hansberry Project produces a mainstage show, workshops, and other events each season.
A Special Event
Save the date for the 3rd Annual Juneteenth Gala
Saturday, June 14, 2008
Productions
The Hansberry Project presents plays during ACT’s mainstage season featuring both classic works from the African American canon, and new works by emerging and established playwrights. Through our mainstage productions, the Hansberry Project seeks to provide consistent opportunities for the community to participate in theatre that presents a myriad of images that are representative of the Black Experience and build bridges between generations.
The diversity in our programming allows us to empower African American artists, speaking on a range of themes and working in a variety of styles from realism to hip-hop and beyond.
Past Hansberry Project productions.
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Readings and Workshops
To establish the Hansberry Project at ACT as a place for playwrights, facilitate the development of high quality work, and support the emergence of new voices, The Hansberry Project hosts a series of readings and workshops.
Play readings and workshops allow playwrights to continue the process of readying their work for production and range from one-day readings to week-long workshops. Each project concludes with a public reading.
Revival readings of Black “classics” honor the rich African American theatrical tradition by introducing important playwrights to audiences unfamiliar with their bodies of work. These important but un-produced or under-produced performance projects provide a focal point for critical discussions of the plays, their themes and subject matter. These works speak on a range of themes and in a variety of styles, and they highlight the significance of African Americans to the American theatrical landscape.
2007 Readings
Check back for new readings.
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Community Conversations - Telling Our Stories
Telling Our Stories is a series of “Community Conversations” that allow The Hansberry Project to remain in consistent dialogue with our audience and provide an avenue for community engagement around topics of importance in the African American community.
No community conversations are currently scheduled. Click below for video of previous conversations, from The Seattle Channel (Real Player is required).
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BlackStage Theatre Group
The BlackStage Theatre Group attends professional African American plays presented on stage in Seattle and hosts post play discussions to cultivate a deeper, more critical understanding of the aesthetics represented in Black Theatre. The Hansberry Project is pleased to provide an opportunity for the community to support the long-standing tradition of African Americans in theatre. For more information about the group, email
valviv@hansberryproject.org.
Upcoming plays of 2007-08 Season
Dinah Was - Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, Thursday, November 15, 2007
Birdie Blue – Seattle Repertory Theatre, Thursday, December 6, 2007
The Breach - Seattle Repertory Theatre, Thursday, January 17, 2008
Wild Black-Eyed Susans – Ethnic Cultural Theatre, Thursday, Feb 7, 2008
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