Theatre News and Reviews

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot are played out in court one final time when Stephen Adly Guirgis world premiere play directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman closes Off-Broadway, April 3.

The new LAByrinth Theatre Company staging presented in collaboration with The Public Theater began previews Feb. 8 and opened March 2 at The Public Theater’s Martinson Hall. Sam Rockwell and Eric Bogosian star in the debut which had extended prior to its opening due to audience demand.

The Last Days follows the story — set mainly in a near-Purgatory courtroom — of a lawyer who appeals the case of God and the Kingdom of Heaven vs. Judas Iscariot. Saint Monica, Mother Teresa, Mary Magdalene, Caiaphas the Elder, Simon the Zealot and even Sigmund Freud offer their testimony in the seriocomic work which “re-examines the plight and fate” of the infamous Biblical betrayer.

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