Mark Rylance's star turn as Rooster in Jez Butterworth's play owes much to the time he spent with the hard-drinking Wiltshire wild man who inspired the playwrightWhen Mark Rylance was toast…
Berliner Philharmoniker, Berlin presents "Jerusalem Quartet and Andras Schiff," a concert on May 24, 2017 at 8 pm.The concert will feature performances by Jerusalem Quartet, an Israeli strin…
By Abraham Benson-Goldberg. Abraham Benson-Goldberg discusses Khan Theatre's production of Philoctetes , examining the intersections of young soldiers, heroism, war, and politics.
Jerusalem Quartet's Bartók is more elegant than hard-edged; Heath Quartet's Tchaikovsky is vigorous and sweeping.
Amos Oz discusses his new novel Judas, his first full-length work since A Tale of Love and Darkness. Set in Jerusalem in 1959, Judas tells the story of Shmuel Ash, a young scholar who is …
Nat Turner in Jerusalem can't quite acquit itself. By Doug Strassler (@DougDawg13) Get ready to hear a lot about Nat Turner this fall. The executed leader of one of the better-known slave re…
A well acted, heavy two hander (well really 3 but it's only two actors) is playing down at New York Theater Workshop. Nat Turner in Jerusalem (Virginia, not Israel) is a fictional…
Phillip James Brannon and Rowan Vickers shows us what it's like to spend a two-show day at New York Theatre Workshop's Nat Turner in Jerusalem.
By: David Sheward "I tire of metaphor. We are talking in circles," cries lawyer Thomas R. Gray to Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 slave revolt, towards the end of Nathan Alan Davis's earn…
by Samuel L. Leiter A headline in the Times (October 3) notes: "For 'Birth of a Nation,' Goal Is to Inspire, Not Incite," pointing to the political implications of the soon-to-open movie abo…
The playwright sets the action in Turner's jail cell where he's chained up, visited by Gray, and overseen by a guard, the night before his execution. Mr. Davis states that this situation is…
The new play is written by Nathan Alan Davis.
It may be hard to remember now but many people believed that Barack Obama's presidency would take the country into a post-racial era, where, as Martin Luther King Jr. once dreamed, people wo…
We ventured out en mass four consecutive nights and lived to recount the tale. Discussed in this episode Shows Discussed The Undertaking from The Civilians at BAM, Life amp Times Episode 8 f…
We ventured out en mass four consecutive nights and lived to recount the tale. Discussed in this episode: The Undertaking from The Civilians at BAM (1:33) Life & Times: Episode …
"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 th…
The new play, presented by New York Theater Workshop, is a fictionalized account of the rebellion leader's final night on earth.
Nathan Alan Davis' new play is directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian.
- Nat Turner's famous rebellion retold by Nathan Alan Davis in a spare, small-scale New York Theatre Workshop production
Nathan Alan Davis takes a fresh look at history at New York Theatre Workshop.
Nathan Alan Davis's contemplative and largely inert play depicts the famous leader of a slave uprising as a biblical martyr and prophet.
by Michael Bracken In August, 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner, a self-styled preacher and soldier of God, led a slave rebellion that resul…
New York Theater Workshop, New YorkA new drama imagines the slave rebellion leader's final night in prison before being hanged. The result is a static two-hander in which the leads fail to c…
The new off-Broadway drama, 'Nat Turner in Jerusalem,' concerns the leader of the 1831 slave rebellion played by Nate Parker in his acclaimed upcoming film, 'The Birth of a Nation.' read more