Mona Fastvold’s set on “The Testament of Ann Lee” is much like the world of her subject, the founder of the Shaker religious movement in the 18th century: Immersive, wildly ambitious, utopian even, ...

Searchlight’s recent pick-up of Mona Fastvold’s Shaker architect movie, The Testament of Ann Lee, will be hitting select theaters on Dec. 25 with a 70MM cut. The dating gives star Amanda Seyfried two ...

Many of the Shaker hymns, words and music, are directly inspirational, coming to this brother or that sister without regard to his or her special genius; they are sung and written down, and are then ...

Choreographer Reggie Wilson slowly entered the stage and softly sang the Shaker hymn “Tis a Gift to be Simple.” He picked up pieces of clothing from the floor and rearranged them before sitting on a ...

"There Are NO Black Shakers" is a contemporary folk opera re-interpreting traditional Shaker hymns to tell the very true story of Prime Lane, a free Black man who joined the Shaker Society in Albany ...