Which parts of the movie are rooted in history, and which are the speculative stuff of Lee lore?

Amanda Seyfried says no to sex in the dance-fueled film "The Testament of Ann Lee," which tells the real history behind the ...

Mother Ann, as Lee was called, was one of history’s few female faith leaders, which is probably why we don’t know that much about her. She sought to help establish a Utopian church community where ...

Since it premiered at the Venice International Film Festival last September, “The Testament of Ann Lee” has been ruffling feathers. First reactions ranged from withering to superlative, not to mention ...

Mona Fastvold’s set on “The Testament of Ann Lee” is much like the world of her subject, the founder of the Shaker religious movement in the 18th century: Immersive, wildly ambitious, utopian even, ...

How did a charismatic but impoverished British woman become the leader of the progressive religious sect known as "the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee, pegged by Fastvold as the “first feminist” of colonial America, was born in Manchester, England, in 1736. She would go on to ...

The most common reaction to The Testament of Ann Lee is to note that you’ve never seen a movie like it. True enough! It’s ...

Many of the tenets that 18th-century Shaker movement founder Ann Lee espoused hundreds of years ago could well enlighten today’s not-always-inclusive culture, says Amanda Seyfried. Melania Trump ...

With "The Testament of Ann Lee", a movie about the founder of the 18th-century Shaker religious movement screening at the Venice Film Festival, director Mona Fastvold sought to honour a figure "on the ...

An art exhibition about the Shakers, also known as The United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing, would naturally have furniture. The Institute of Contemporary Art has plenty: ladder ...