By Gordon Cox
The latest play by John Patrick Shanley has a new title, “Storefront Church,” and a cast that includes Giancarlo Esposito, Tonya Pinkins and Zach Grenier.
Bowing at Off Broadway’s Atlantic Theater this spring, “Storefront Church” was previously called “Sleeping Demon.” Show is the third in a trilogy of plays that includes Shanley’s “Defiance” and Tony winner “Doubt.”
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May 16 through June 24 2012
Atlantic Theater Company
John Patrick Shanley “Storefront Church”
Linda Bross Theater
336 w. 20th Street.
NYC
Storefront Church is the final installment of the trilogy called Church And State, which began with Doubt.
The story concerns a Bronx Borough President who is forced, by the mortgage crisis, into a confrontation with a local minister. The question they confront is one that faces us all. What is the relationship between spiritual experience and social action?
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