Nat Turner in Jerusalem, a new play by Nathan Alan Davis at New York Theatre Workshop, is yet another retelling of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave insurrection, a story that has been told and retold for nearly two centuries – and will be told again in The Birth of a Nation, a film by Nate Parker opening October 7.

…the experience of actually sitting through the 90 minutes of Nat Turner in Jerusalem is not as rewarding as one would hope…Yet there is no denying the beguiling presence at the center of the play – that of Phillip James Brannon’s performance as a Nat Turner who is both uncommonly intelligent and otherworldly.

Full review at DC Theatre Scene

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Phillip James Brannon as Nat Turner

Rowan Vickers

Phillip James Brannon and Rowan Vickers