‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ is a smart look at Harlem Renaissance on N.J. stage | Review

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pression that would long outstretch its historical bounds.

And while there is nothing untrue about that and similar characterizations of the buzzing period of Black energy and potential in the 1920s and ‘30s, every story of success has a corresponding narrative of at least struggle, if not failure.

Pearl Cleage’s “Blues for an Alabama Sky,” now on stage at McCarter Theatre in Princeton, puts pressure on the glowing historical narrative of the Harlem Renaissance by looking with a more nuanced eye at the lives of everyday Harlemites working to find room for their own dreams and epressions amid the eciting cultural moment.

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