Actors Linda Powell, Andrew Garman, Larry Powell, and Philip Kerr are seated while an ensemble choir sings. It is a church scene from The Christians. A large illuminated cross hangs in the background.

Linda Powell, Andrew Garman, Larry Powell, Philip Kerr, and ensemble choir. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Linda Powell, Andrew Garman, Larry Powell, Philip Kerr, and ensemble choir. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Emily Donahoe, Linda Powell, and Andrew Garman. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Andrew Garman and Larry Powell. Photo by Joan Marcus.

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Playwright Lucas Hnath. Photo by Zack DeZon.

Les Waters

Playwrights: The Christians, For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday, Doris to Darlene. Les is an Obie Award-winning director. From 2012 to 2018, he served as artistic director of Actors Theatre of Louisville, where he directed the premiere of Lucas Hnath’s The Thin Place, The Christians, and other new works by Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Sarah Ruhl, Anne Washburn and Dave Malloy, Will Eno, Charles Mee, and Mark Schultz. In 2009, he made his Broadway debut with Sarah Ruhl’s In the Next Room (or the vibrator play). In the last ten years, his productions have ranked among the year’s best in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Time Magazine, The Guardian, Time Out New York, and USA Today. In New York, his productions have been seen at BAM, Classic Stage Company, Second Stage, The Connelly Theater, Signature, Soho Rep., The Public, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Regional credits include productions at Berkeley Rep, Huntington, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theatre, ART, Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, Yale Rep, and American Conservatory Theater. 

Updated 11/14/19

Reviews
  • “Critics' Pick. THE FIRST IMPORTANT NEW PLAY OF THE FALL SEASON. Ingeniously staged by Les Waters, this terrific play about the mystery of faith by Lucas Hnath — one of the freshest playwriting voices to emerge in the past five years — is MESMERIZING.”

    — Charles Isherwood, The New York Times
  • “DEEPLY AFFECTING. EMOTIONALLY DEVASTATING. A white-knuckled drama about a theological battle. This is a production we can believe in.”

    — Elisabeth Vincentelli, The New York Post
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  • “A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN with a chorus whose voices blend in harmonies as bright as their choir robes!”

    — Joe Dziemianowicz, New York Daily News
  • “EXTRAORDINARY! Lucas Hnath dares us to see anti-religious prejudice as just another form of faith.”

    — Jesse Green, New York magazine