02.10.2019

In WBUR’s ‘The Artery:’ ‘Nat Turner In Jerusalem’ Imagines What The Slave Rebellion Leader’s Last Night Was Like

Awash in blue light on stage, Nat Turner paces the confines of his cell the night before execution; his punishment for leading a slave rebellion and killing more than 50 people in 1831. The sound of heavy chains scraping across the floor weighs on the spirit. Before the sun rises, Turner’s lawyer visits to get information about uprisings to add to Turner’s confession. He wants answers and remorse.

02.10.2019

In Sampan: Celebrity Series of Boston Neighborhood Arts performances in spring 2019 bring free and low-cost jazz, dance, world music, and classical music concerts to Boston’s neighborhoods

Neighborhood Arts, presented by the Celebrity Series of Boston, brings the joy of live performance to people of all ages and abilities, drawing deeply on partnerships with Boston area artists and community organizations to activate neighborhoods with a rich and varied array of opportunities.

02.07.2019

In The Boston Globe: In ‘Nat Turner in Jerusalem,’ a raw chapter of racial history

A barefoot black man in chains: That is the unsettling sight that greets the audience as Nathan Alan Davis’s “Nat Turner in Jerusalem’’ begins to unfold at Hibernian Hall in Roxbury.

The scene is doubly resonant because it was precisely the attempt to throw off the chains of slavery, for himself and other African-Americans, that landed Nat Turner (Brandon G. Green) in the jail cell where he sits slumped in a corner, his shirt bloody, his pants torn.

02.05.2019

On the Boston Stages Blog: FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE, NAT TURNER TELLS US WHY

A forlorn soul is handcuffed and shackled, straining to see the last rays of what will be his final sunset in the small town Jerusalem, Va. before he meets his Maker the next morning. The gallows are beckoning.

They will come from near and far to see Nat Turner hanged the next morning for leading a slave uprising in Southampton County, Va. that killed 55 whites in 1831.