Mayo, Sandra, and Elvin Holt, Stages of Struggle and Celebration: A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas, University of Texas Press, 2016.
This groundbreaking historical overview by Mayo and Holt of African American theatre organizations in Texas’s major cities from the 1800s to the mid-2000s chronicles the remarkable stories of visionary playwrights, actors, and producers who shaped a vibrant, evolving cultural aesthetic in institutions that in a few notable examples have persevered over forty years as in the Dallas’ The Black Academy of Arts and Letters and Houston’s The Ensemble Theatre.
