“Jesus Hopped the A Train”

By Deanna Dement Myers

Jesus Hopped the A Train – Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Directed by Haris Lefteri. Co-producers: Mark Stickler and Kristen Dattoli; Monica Bruno, Stage Manager; Michelle Aguillon, Stage Design; Douglas Gordon, Lighting Design; Jason Dawson, Sound Design; Anna Silva, Costume Design. Presented by the Hovey Players March 1-16. Tickets available at hoveyplayers.com

“How many Sons of God you know drive a Lexus?”

Kneeling on stage, a young man attempts to recite the Lord’s Prayer from memory. In a holding cell for twenty-three hours a day, Angel Cruz (Dominic Carter) is awaiting trial for the shooting of the Reverend Kim. The shooting was part of a botched plan to rescue his childhood friend who had been brainwashed and captured by Kim’s cult. Angel is frightened and angered by his incarceration, as this is basically his first criminal offense.

by Michele Markarian

“Jesus Hopped the A Train”. Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Directed by Dayanne C. Byron Walters and Daniel Boudreau. Presented by Praxis Stage at the Dorchester Art Project, 1486 Dorchester Avenue through May 21.

Walking into the tiny, bare bones space at 1486 Dorchester Avenue, where Praxis Stage is performing “Jesus Hopped the A Train”, I was immediately filled with a stab of homesickness for those theater spaces that used to thrive in Boston and Cambridge before the gentrification of theater prevailed – The Leland Center. The Piano Factory. Little Flags Theater. Without large budgets and grants, theater artists had to rely less on production values and more on sheer energy and talent – which this production has an abundance of.

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