The Amen Corner

The Amen Corner is a three-act play by James Baldwin. It was Baldwin's first work for the stage following the success of his novel Go Tell It on the Mountain. The drama was first published in 1954, and inspired a short-lived 1983 Broadway musical adaptation with the slightly truncated title, Amen Corner. In the UK, Anton Philips' production of the play at the Tricycle Theatre in 1987 was the first black-produced and directed play to transfer to the West End of London, staged at the Lyric Theatre in Shaftesbury Avenue. Phillips directed a revival of the play, again at The Tricycle, in 1999. The play was revived at the National Theatre in London in the summer of 2013.