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.

Lucas Hnath

Playwrights: The Christians (Obie Award for Playwriting). Lucas received a 2017 Tony Award nomination for Best Play for A Doll’s House, Part 2. Lucas’s other plays include Dana H., Hillary and Clinton, Red Speedo, A Public Reading of an Unproduced Screenplay About the Death of Walt Disney, Isaac’s Eye, and Death Tax. He has been produced on Broadway at the John Golden Theatre, Off-Broadway at New York Theatre Workshop, Soho Rep., and Ensemble Studio Theatre. His plays have also been premiered at Center Theatre Group, the Goodman, Humana Festival of New Plays, South Coast Repertory, and Victory Gardens. He is a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, a member of Ensemble Studio Theatre, and an alumnus of New Dramatists. Awards: Whiting Award, Guggenheim Fellowship, Kesselring Prize, Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Play, Steinberg Playwright Award, and the Windham-Campbell Literary Prize.

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