Box 83

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Sample scene scripts, character list, and notes on Jitterbug project (written by Shange for Pamela Cooper Associates, Ben Vereen, and others

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Dedication page for untitled book, Betsey Brown AMTF production script with annotations (1989), Nomathemba rehearsal draft script (February 24, 1995); drawing from Savannah Shange to Ntozake Shange

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 4, Press, Programs, and Ephemera, 1970-2019, undated, includes newspapers and magazine clippings with coverage and reviews of Shange’s and others’ works; playbills and programs; flyers and posters; press materials for works of Shange’s and works of others that she attended; recordings of television and radio media appearances; and ephemera such as travel itineraries, theater tickets, and book jackets. This series documents both Shange’s own creative output and frequent speaking...

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Includes syllabus and research for Brown University course 'Blacks in Latin American History and Society" taught by Anani Dzidzienyo

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Manuscript with style sheet, copy edits, and correspondence with editors

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Subseries 1.7, for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, 1970-2008, undated, includes early handwritten and typewritten manuscripts of poems, typewriter manuscripts of the entire work, an original chapbook version of the text, and rewrites and additions of poems for later productions of the choreopoem with handwritten edits. for colored girls…, a choreopoem, was first published in 1976 by...

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Manuscript for Lulu en la Habana, adapted from The Lulu Plays by Frank Wedekind (1998), professional correspondence

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Letters to cast and crew, rehearsal notes, script with notes for Steppenwolf Theatre production

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Subseries 1.16, Nomathemba, 1994-1996, undated, includes drafts, production notes, and edits of the musical written by Shange, Eric Simonson and Ladysmith Black Mambazo's leader, Joseph Shabalala. First performed in 1996, Nomathemba is a love story set in post-apartheid South Africa.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Series 10, Collected Written Works, Music, and Visual Art, 1913-2018, undated, includes selections from Shange’s personal library from her home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn (collected by Barnard archivists and Professor Kim Hall in 2014); as well as other texts, recorded music, and visual artwork collected by Shange. Many of the books and magazines from Shange’s library speak directly to her interests and influences and are annotated; published works by Shange are also included here,...