Theater director David Shakes looks back at the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and looks ahead to the North Star Players’ 2021 revival of Deborah Solomon’s “Emancipation Denied.”
James Baldwin
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Calendar preview: Getting schooled
This week’s preview highlights some local opportunities to learn, expand perspectives, and engage meaningfully in important conversations.
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Film review: “I Am Not Your Negro”
Nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Academy Awards, Raoul Peck’s extraordinary “I Am Not Your Negro” uses as its framework an unfinished 30-page manuscript by author and essayist James Baldwin. The book proposal was started in 1979, and the final work was to explore the experience of being black in America viewed through […]
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Theater review: “The Amen Corner” at MuCCC
James Baldwin’s “The Amen Corner,” performed by the North Star Players under the direction of David Shakes, opened at MuCCC (142 Atlantic Avenue) on Tuesday evening. Between moving monologues, well-navigated layers of moral ambiguity, and singing that will give you goosebumps, this production is community theater at its finest. Through the course of the play, […]
