Live on stage the Oscar-winning composer’s score is disorientating, ecstatic and strange. Its star, Amanda Seyfried’s pure voice is the anchor in a brief but absorbing set A few days ago, Amanda ...

A period musical about Shaker history might not seem like an obvious choice for a breakout hit, but that’s exactly what The Testament of Ann Lee has become. Starring Amanda Seyfried in an award-magnet ...

Throughout his career, the actor Lewis Pullman has specialized in characters with a lived-in spirituality. Whether playing a charismatic yet manipulative pastor in "The Starling Girl" or a being with ...

Thrash metal titans Testament may have dropped one of the meanest new albums in a while with Para Bellum last year and they may have a banger of a tour lined up for the U.S. this spring, but they ...

In the mid-1700s, Ann Lee helped start a religious movement preaching absolutely no sex. Nearly three centuries later, the Shaker founder could become an unlikely icon for Gen Z, who are bringing ...

Recreating the industrious world of the Shakers wasn’t just movie magic—it required conservators, curators and artisans Annalise June Kamegawa - Freelance Writer A place for everything and everything ...

“The Testament of Ann Lee” is wild. It’s also weird, probably too weird for some people, which is a shame. Amanda Seyfried gives a brilliant performance as the title character, who not only brought ...

NEW YORK – Certainly the strangest if most original musical to arrive in many years, “The Testament of Ann Lee” tells the true story of the British woman who founded the American celibate Christian ...

Where The Brutalist was about the eternal power struggle that is art vs. commerce, The Testament of Ann Lee explores the power dynamics surrounding religion and sex. Ann Lee was very progressive for ...

“The Testament of Ann Lee” is the latest film from Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, the team behind “The Brutalist.” This time, Fastvold is behind the camera while she and Corbet share screenwriting ...