The Amen Corner (1965) - repro

James Baldwin’s monumental dramatic masterpiece 'The Amen Corner' completed a celebrated original Broadway premiere run at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in 1965, running for an accomplished seasonal commercial residency under the banner of producer Frank Cosgrove. The textually raw, gospel-infused naturalistic tragedy unfolds entirely inside a cramped Harlem tenement storefront church cockpit, tracking Margaret Alexander, a fiercely pious female pastor whose comfortable religious dynasty and domestic arrangements fracture when her estranged jazz-musician husband returns.