"Dragons at the Snack Table" explores Magic Realism in relation to lived Applied Theatre spaces.

Compares the state of Asian American theater in New York to that of the West Coast. Asserts that while talent and dedication are not lacking in New York, Asian American drama lacks the originality, organization and purposeful focus it has in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. (GC)

Intended for classroom teachers, parents, theater people, and the general public, this book is an account of teaching a fifth grade class to write, direct, and perform their own plays as staged readings, videotapes, radio plays, and full stage productions. It can be read as a story or it can be used as a step-by-step guide for teachers. Each…

Both as director/playwright of New York's New Lafayette Theater and as a writer seriously committed to the forging of a black aesthetic, Ed Bullins brings to the community an artistic synthesis of the Folk-Oral and Formal-Literate Traditions. (Author/JM)

Discusses ed Bullins' role in bringing together in the summer of 1968 a representative collection of works from the Black Arts Movement; the controversy surrounding his 1971 Lincoln Center production of his play, "The Duplex"; and his play, "House Party," a collage of voices and images from Blacktown mounted at The American…