If you do work that welcomes them, the black audience will show up. It did at Center Stage, Baltimore. But foundations give all this money for diversity to people who've not done it before. In American society, when you get to race, logic goes out the window. When I hire a baseball manager, he's going to have managed before.
White theaters try to pimp black audiences.
You're not considered part of the theater. The press has some culpability. The whole theater community is responsible for opening the doors that have been locked for a long time. On TV, people say the black audience is only going to see WB products. That's the only thing being offered on network.