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Article: Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch. A History of African American Theatre.(Book Review)
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- African American Review
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- June 22, 2004
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Errol G. Hill and James V. Hatch. A History of African American Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. 632 pp. $110.00.
Long before Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman coined the phrase the fabulous invalid as the title of their 1938 play, African American theatre, following Hart and Kaufman's characterization of all theatre, could reasonably have been considered the invalid of the "fabulous invalid." For Hart and Kaufman, the theatre was both fabulous and an invalid because it had managed to limp along for more than a few millennia amid predictions of its imminent demise in almost every century of its existence. Black theatre, as Hill and Hatch reveal the length ...