Cults have seldom been so robustly represented in popular culture. We have the Zizians , the Sarah Lawrence sex cult , NXIVM , and the Cult of Mother God , each of their stories dutifully unpicked in articles and docu-series; and now, a new off-Broadway play examines another such group.

Nazareth Hassan’s Practice covers the cult of Asa Leon (played by an imposing Ronald Peet), a charismatic multidisciplinary theater artist auditioning actors for a new, purportedly radical company. As we learn through a podcast clip played aloud as a Voice of God, Asa and their husband Walt (Mark Junek) have used a “Genius Grant” to purchase a historic African Methodist Episcopal Church in Brooklyn. Not only have they converted the space into a functional theater, but they’ve also added apartment

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