Exclusive: In this new look at the making of the film, composer Daniel Blumberg notes that he and choreographer Celia Rowlson Hall both create work that is "a blurring between the abstract and formal.

Director Mona Fastvold’s third feature is an ambitious account of the life of the 18th-century religious leader who pioneered the Shakers movement. Co-written with The Brutalist’s Brady Corbet, this ...

Director Mona Fastvold’s adventurous musical “The Testament of Ann Lee” turns every sound into a part of the score, from breathing to the moos of cows. Composer Daniel Blumberg immersed himself in ...

Amanda Siegfried gives a powerful and fearless performance in this drama based on the true story of Ann Lee, the founder of Shaker religious community in 1774 Colonial America. Director/co-writer Mona ...

The Shaking Quakers might sound like a ’90s rock band from the state of Georgia but it’s actually an accurate description of the late 18 th-century religious sect we now know simply as the Shakers.

While Mona Fastvold was on the awards circuit last season as the cowriter and producer of The Brutalist, alongside her husband, Brady Corbet, she was also gestating a passion project of her own, years ...

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 ...

Composer Daniel Blumberg says if anyone was right to tell the story of Ann Lee, it was Mona Fastvold. The historical drama, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” opening Dec. 25, stars Amanda Seyfried as the ...

The hymns are alive with the sound of music. Mona Fastvold’s “The Testament of Ann Lee,” a historical drama starring Amanda Seyfried as the 18th-century religious leader who founded the Shakers, will ...

When it comes to The Testament of Ann Lee, you’re either someone who wants to see a long, sometimes harrowing musical about the woman who founded the Shaker religion, or you’re most definitely not.