![]() “The way the set is built and the architecture of the auditorium, it feels like the audience is in the congregation. 3-20) for Seattle’s The Williams Project. White, the New York actor/director (recently seen in The Inheritance on Broadway) who is staging The Amen Corner (Nov. “When I came in April to do some auditions and looked at the space, I thought, this is perfect,” says Reggie D. Today the building houses LANGSTON - aka the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute, currently celebrating 50 years in the space - named for another groundbreaking Black author. Now his gospel-music-infused drama is getting its overdue Seattle premiere in a former house of worship that was erected in the Central District in 1915 as a Jewish synagogue. ![]() ![]() Baldwin in fact set his first play, 1954’s The Amen Corner, in a small Pentecostal church in Harlem - much like the one he attended as a child, where he was encouraged to become a boy preacher (a saga he fictionalized in his first novel, Go Tell It on the Mountain). ![]()
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