Places & Venues
Cliffnotes from The Archive: Black theaters in NC
One old theater in NoDa helped unlock a rich history of Black theaters in North Carolina.
Jeredan Surgeon
Built by reading captured documents — venue listings, pageant programs, licence rolls — and recording only what they actually say. A record with no sourced fact does not get published.
One old theater in NoDa helped unlock a rich history of Black theaters in North Carolina.
Classes ordered by roster size, largest first.
Classes ordered by roster size, largest first.
Classes ordered by roster size, largest first.
Classes ordered by roster size, largest first.
Ordered by people credited there, most first.
Ordered by practitioners on record, most first. 45 further places are held with nobody placed in them yet; they are listed in the registry.
Ordered by publication date, newest first.
One old theater in NoDa helped unlock a rich history of Black theaters in North Carolina.
The power to defund art erases no art at all. It smothers it quietly until no one remembers it was ever there. Why this register exists, and why it starts in North Carolina.
What a document said happened — a booking, a placement, a tenure. Every row names the capture it was read from and the date it was checked. 19,645 of them.
This register's own editorial reading of what something is. Held separately, and never counted as evidence for itself. 4,280 of them.