The Testament of Ann Lee” and Shaker traditions represent how movement has been a constantly evolving conduit to heaven.

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 ...

Mona Fastvold’s musical drama The Testament of Ann Lee stars Amanda Seyfried as the titular founder of the Shaker sect, a group that worshipped via “ecstatic dancing” or shaking. Lee’s devout belief ...

In “The Testament of Ann Lee,” two young Shakers, disciples of revolutionary preacher Mother Ann’s teachings, fail to obey their leader’s primary command: Celibacy. Fresh-faced and newly in love, with ...

CHATHAM — The new film “The Testament of Ann Lee” tells the extraordinary true story of how its titular protagonist went from an impoverished Englishwoman to founding the Shakers in upstate New York.

A musical biopic fittingly composed of religious ballads, The Testament of Ann Lee chronicles the life of its eponymous 18th century religious leader, played with tremendous passion by Amanda Seyfried ...

The Testament Of Ann Lee picks up where 2009’s Antichrist left off: a wave of innumerable women saunter through the woods in a beautiful, haunting, mysterious manner. But the singing women of Ann Lee ...