At Center Stage, a novel ‘Gleam’ to Janie’s journey
A few years back, Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 novel, “ Their Eyes Were Watching God ,” was made into a soggy TV movie produced by Oprah Winfrey. The edges of its flamboyant language were sanded down — Suzan-Lori Parks, currently of the controversially Broadway-ized “Porgy and Bess,” was one of the writers — as the picture turned Hurston’s folklore style into a glossy magazine’s take on bodice-ripping fantasias. Read full article > >
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At Center Stage, a novel ‘Gleam’ to Janie’s journey



