LAURENCE HOLDER (1939 - )
| Nationality: | USA |
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Plays by Laurence Holder
Bird |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The story of Charlie Parker | |||||
Bird Of Paradise |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1974 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Bussa |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Bussa a slave in Barbados was sold to Thomas Jefferson and taken to the States. He escaped and boarded a ship for London - but was recognised and sold back into slavery in Barbados. He then led an insurrection against slavery | |||||
Closed |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Crooner, The |
| 1st Produced: | Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NY | 2007 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | jazz play | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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| Synopsis: | the fictional story of the loves and rise to fame of a "great" jazz singer. nytheatre.com | |||||
Dream Rooms |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Dreams Deferred |
| 1st Produced: | 1982 | |||||
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| 1st Published: | Unpub. script in the Hatch-Billops Collection, 1981 | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
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Ethel Waters |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | The story of singer and actress Ethel Waters | |||||
F The Fringe Candidate |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | How a black woman ran for President - Leonara Fulanin | |||||
Fagen |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The soldier who lead the revolt in the Philippines against the Americans | |||||
Fighter, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | - | Female | 1 |
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Gospel According To Max Roach, The |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Grey Boy |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1973 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Hot Fingers |
| 1st Produced: | Vital Arts Center, New York | 1984 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Play | One Act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | What It Is What It Ain't, Jelly Roll Morton | |||||
Hot Snow |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The story of Valaida Snow - singer, dancer and band leader. Sent by the Nazis to a concentration camp until repatriated to the United States | |||||
Jackass, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Journey, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Unpub. script in the Schomburg Collection., | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | 3 Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 9 BM, 3 BF, 4 WM, 1 WF | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A revolution planned and staged by elite, black, middle class America | |||||
Juba |
| 1st Produced: | 1978 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Musical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Nominated for an AUDELCO Award for best musical creator. Composer: Richard Weinstock, John Braden, William Elliott and M Ephron | |||||
| Synopsis: | William Henry Lane known as Juba a legendary dancer in the 1840s | |||||
Langston |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Langston Hughes | |||||
Man |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | One act | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A man who was born in prison and raised there until he was 21 years old | |||||
Mandela Saga, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1995 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Mob, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Monk 'n' Bud |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1992 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Based on a true story. Thelonious Monk and Bud Powell - jazz musicians were arrested and beaten by the police for playing jazz | |||||
Nelson 'n' Simone: Out Of The Senses |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | What happened when Simone de Beauvoir met Nelson Algren | |||||
Open |
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| 1st Published: | Unpub. script in the Schomburg Collection., | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | 2 Act Drama | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 7 BM, 3 BF | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A bizarre meeting of bizarre people at the Agatha Johnson Memorial Sanatorium. The group includes a playwright, a teacher, and a minister | |||||
Points |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1982 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Prophylactic, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1970 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Red Channels |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1994 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | The Communist "Red" scare and Paul Robson | |||||
Ruby and Pearl: A Class Act |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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| Synopsis: | Two ageing burlesque dancers who refuse to take it all off | |||||
Scott Joplin |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
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Shadows, the |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1970 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Shores, The |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Street Corners |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1972 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | Unpub. script in the Schomburg Collection., | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | If Publisher (above) is underlined then the play may be purchased by direct click, otherwise (below) are AbeBooks for secondhand & 1st eds and other Booksellers for new copies | |||||
| Genre: | 3 Act | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
| Parts Other: | 8 BM, 2 BF, 2 WM, 1 WF | |||||
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| Synopsis: | A corner inhabited by "dead" characters that include transvestites, an interracial "holdup" team, and an ego-tripping, black photographer. | |||||
Sugar Ray |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Monologue play | Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The story of Sugar Ray Robinson | |||||
Swee'Pea And The Duke |
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | Lives and loves of Lena Horne, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn | |||||
They Were All Gardenias |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1979 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | A secret recording session in 1948 with Billie Holiday | |||||
When The Chickens Came Home To Roost |
| 1st Produced: | 1981 | |||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | sketch, 1 act | Biographical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Subtitled "A Play About Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad and Their Last Confrontation." Winner of an AUDELCO Award for Best Playwright | |||||
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Whore, The |
| 1st Produced: | New York Theatre Ensemble | 1974 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | - | Play/Drama | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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Woman |
| 1st Produced: | Paul Robeson Cabaret Theatre, Brooklyn, NY | 1985 | ||||
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| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | Drama, full length | - | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Synopsis: | The story of a female migrant worker who has to confront the world alone. Black Masks, May 1985, p. 3 | |||||
Zora |
| 1st Produced: | - | 1979 | ||||
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| 1st Published: | - | ISBN | - | |||
| To Buy This Play: | I don't think the play has been published but you could try abebooks.com or the playwright direct where their email is shown at the top of the page | |||||
| Genre: | sketch, 1 act | Biographical | Parts: | Male | - | Female | - |
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| Notes: | Orig. title: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God. Subtitled "A Play About Zora Neale Hurston." | |||||
| Synopsis: | A portrait of the well-known author and folklorist of the Harlem Renaissance. Public reading under its orig title by FSWW, Jan. 14, 1978 | |||||