In 1955 James Baldwin had just turned 30 and had written a play about a storefront church in Harlem that he could not get produced in New York. There was "no market" for it, he was told. Coincidentally in Washington, DC, Owen Dodson was looking for a play by a Black playwright to be performed […] The post Whitney White on directing James Baldwin's classic 'The Amen Corner' at Shakespeare Theatre Company appeared fi…
SOURCE: DC Metro Theater Arts at 04:47PM on March 10, 2020