In a 1950s storefront church in Harlem, Pastor Margaret Alexander
rails at her congregation and her teenaged son for their vices. With a
gospel choir singing of redemption in one room and her son bonding
with his ailing father over their love of jazz in the next, Margaret
must face the music herself when a figure from her own troubled past
returns. James Baldwin's The Amen Corner tackles the role of the
church in the black community in this landmark work, written
immediately after his breakthrough novel Go Tell It on the Mountain.
Whitney White, winner of the Susan Stroman Director Award, makes her
Shakespeare Theatre Company directorial debut in this powerful
production rich with music, humanity, and Baldwin's lyrical prose.
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