Janelle Cooper, Andrew Broderick as David, Jenni Burke, David Alan Anderson, Allan Louis, Monica Parks and Alana Bridgewater in ‘The Amen Corner’ (Shaw Festival, 2023), Photo by David Cooper

The Shaw Festival production of James Baldwin’s The Amen Corner is both grand and deeply nuanced. It is also a striking and sumptuous piece of nostalgic Americana (well-paired with Gypsy)—delving into the fraught and impassioned world of an African-American evangelical Christian community in early 1950s Harlem. Continue Reading