Celebrating James Baldwin
HartBeat is celebrating Baldwin's centennial with a series of collaborations, readings, and company productions that you won't want to miss. Join us for these events and many more as the 2024 Baldwin season emerges.
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HartBeat Productions
March 3
Black Presencing: Free, Community, Play Reading Series
The Amen Corner, by James Baldwin will be held at Cross Street AME Zion Church, 440 West Street, Middletown. Join us for the second play reading in a collaboration between ARTFARM, HartBeat Ensemble and Oddfellows Playhouse. The reading of this powerful play by James Baldwin will be directed by HartBeat Ensemble Director Godfrey Simmons. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted to help replace the roof at Cross Street Church.
Coming!
The Faith of Our Fathers
A theatricalization by Kyle Bass of the famed 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley at the Cambridge Union Society, Cambridge University. The topic: “The American Dream is at the expense of the American Negro.”
Coming!
Jimmy & Lorraine
Developed by playwright Talvin Wilks through research and in collaboration with HartBeat Ensemble members, this play is a meditation on the American political climate of the late ’50s and early ’60s through the lens of two significant artists and social activists of the time. James Baldwin and Lorraine Hansberry were firebrands who helped to forge an image of a true America, an inclusive America, one that debunked all notions of a second-class citizenship.
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