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Twin Cities Planet
THEATER REVIEW | Penumbra Theatre's "The Amen Corner" at the Guthrie Theater ...
Twin Cities Planet
By Marcus Michalik, TC Daily Planet James Baldwin's The Amen Corner has been around for almost six decades now, but as I sat at the Guthrie on opening night listening to the show's rousing gospel choir numbers and watching its central characters give ...
Review of Amen Corner by Mary AalgaardBrainerd Daily Dispatch (blog)

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Amen Corner: Church expands free computer classes
The Augusta Chronicle
A new, larger computer lab is allowing First Baptist Church to increase the number of classes it offers. WHAT: Free computer classes are being offered through the Computers@First ministry of First Baptist Church of Augusta, which has recently expanded ...


 
CBS Local
Curiocity: Q&A With The Soulful Star Of 'The Amen Corner'
CBS Local
And when it comes to the Guthrie Theater's “The Amen Corner,” that statement is certainly true. It took Penumbra's founder and artistic director Lou Bellamy three decades before he was able to take this powerful play off his to-do list.

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The reviews are in for Penumbra Theatre's 'The Amen Corner'
Minnesota Public Radio
The cast of Penumbra Theatre Company's production of The Amen Corner by James Baldwin. "Amen Corner," James Baldwin's first play, is impressive for its meatiness. It packs many issues into three hours -- conflicts between the spiritual and the carnal, ...

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Minnesota Public Radio
Theater review: Issues of dimension, rhythm dog Penumbra's 'The Amen Corner'
Pioneer Press
By Dominic P. Papatola "The Amen Corner" is set in the circumscribed 1950s world of a Harlem street-corner church and in the apartment of its pastor, Margaret Alexander. But James Baldwin's script tells a sprawling, many-tentacled, still-resonant tale ...
Penumbra's Bellamy: Time is right to put on 'Amen Corner'Minnesota Public Radio
No research required for Greta OglesbyMinneapolis Star Tribune

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The righteous woman has a past
Minneapolis Star Tribune
In one vivid scene in "The Amen Corner," which had its tambourine-shaking, foot-stomping opening over the Mother's Day weekend at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, a wife and husband touch tenderly for the first time in years.

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Amen Corner: Hymn festival to close Concerts With a Cause season
The Augusta Chronicle
Don Saliers, professor emeritus at Candler School Of Theology at Emory University, will speak at the festival. WHAT: A hymn festival benefiting The Ronald McDonald House will close the 2011-12 season of Concerts With a Cause at St. John United ...