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Crises of Faith Tests the Secular and the Spiritual in "The Christians" and "Believers" by Broadway & Me

Relations between the worlds of theater and religion have been bad ever since the Puritans shut down London's theaters in 1642. And although the theaters reopened 18 years later with the restoration of Charles II, the wariness has remained so strong that religion has usually been the object of scorn (Inherit the Wind) or satire (The Book of Mormon) in the few shows that dealt with it at all. But over the last year, I…

SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 12:26AM on October 8, 2015

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