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New Play God Shows Up to Run Off-Broadway

The three-member cast includes Lou Liberatore.

Lou Liberatore will star in God Shows Up.
Lou Liberatore will star in God Shows Up.
(© David Gordon)

God Shows Up, a new play by Peter Filichia, will begin performances Saturday, April 6, at the Actor's Temple Theatre.

Directed by Christopher Scott, the cast features LeeAnne Hutchison, Lou Liberatore, and Christopher Sutton. The creative team for includes Josh Iacovelli (set design), Michael Piatkowski (costume design), Joan Racho-Jansen (lighting design), and Andy Evan Cohen (projection and sound design).

The play is described as follows: "God Shows Up asks: What happens when God chooses to drop in to his creation of Earth after an absence of a couple of thousand years? Why does he choose the broadcast studio of a well-known televangelist who serves all faiths from his megachurch in Saint Louis? What is God's true take on God? What is God's true take on religion?"