The trailer for the film "The Testament of Ann Lee" is riveting and unsettling — just as the celibate Shakers were to the ...

Far more than a furniture style, Shakerism represented an all-consuming belief system rooted in celibacy, community, and ...

Despite their surface similarities, David and The Testament Of Ann Lee present opposite views of religious belief.

Choreographer Celia Rowlson-Hall shares how she transformed Amanda Seyfried into our divine mother in the movie-musical.

Production designer Sam Bader tells AD how the religious group’s villages and beautifully crafted furniture were recreated ...

"It was scary," says the actress, who plays the Mancunian founder of the Shakers religious movement in Mona Fastvold's Venice ...

Ann Lee was the founder of the 18th-century religious sect known as the Shakers. The Testament of Ann Lee depicts her true ...

The Shakers were a utopian, egalitarian religious group, originally an offshoot of the Quaker community in eighteenth-century England, whose adherents dedicated themselves to God by separating ...

During the mid-19th century, the Shakers were the largest and most successful utopian group in existence, with tight-knit communities scattered throughout the Northeast and in Kentucky. The religious ...

US actress Amanda Seyfried plays the title role in 'The Testament of Ann Lee' Norwegian director Mona Fastvold wanted to rescue the memory of early feminist Anne Lee 'The Testament of Ann Lee' cast ...