'Nat Turner in Jerusalem' review: Timely but preachy history
"Nat Turner in Jerusalem" takes on the important -- and with the upcoming movie Nate Parker's "The Birth of a Nation" suddenly timely -- 1831 slave revolt with the seriousness deserved by this legendary and famously brutal insurrection. Alas, the 90-minute hair-shirt of a drama by Nathan Alan Davis, who has a fellowship at New York Theatre Workshop, is didactic, preachy and airless in ways that seismic history must n…