Billy Porter’s musical Sanctuary

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Posted: 7/24/21 at 1:04pm

New York Stage and Film has announced additional programming for its upcoming summer season, running July 17-August 2. Billy Porter's new Gospel musical Sanctuary will be part of New York Stage and Film's Always On video programming and will stream July 29-August 2.

Sanctuary is described as follows: "What is God? God is love! Plain and simple. Sanctuary, with book by Billy Porter and music and lyrics by Kurt Carr, invites audiences to fellowship and to learn how to spread the love, through the power of gospel music. Love is God."

The virtual presentation will include performances by Deborah Cox, Bryan Terrell Clark, Ledisi, and Virginia Woodruff with Broadway's Inspirational Voices, led by incoming artistic director Allen Ren Louis.

Sanctuary will be available July 29-August 2. Tickets will be available on a pay-what-you-can basis.

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Posted: 7/24/21 at 1:05pm

For tickets:

https://www.newyorkstageandfilm.org/sanctuary

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Posted: 8/1/21 at 12:24am

The stream was very entertaining. Billy and Kurt give some insight into the musical and the performances are awesome.

[Alexander Lamar]

Posted: 8/1/21 at 6:54am

Thanks for bumping this, I forgot about it. Sad that this really is just a presentation of some of the songs, but Kurt is one of my gospel favs so I’m not too mad about it.