'' As It Is in Heaven '' , a play with an all-female cast , was first performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2001 . A production was scheduled to open at off-Broadway ’s 78th Street Theatre Lab in New York City on September 13 . Two days prior to the opening , the September 11 attacks occurred . On the night of the attacks , the cast members responded by rehearsing the Shaker hymns performed in the play and the production later opened as planned , though many critics who were scheduled to attend had to cancel . It opened two years later at the Actors Co-op in Los Angeles . The play ’s difficult , non-linear structure proved a challenge to both the Los Angeles company and its audience , though its run was extended . In 2008 , the play was performed in Shakertown , in Pleasant Hill , Kentucky , the place that had first inspired it , and it was revived in New York in 2011
September 11 attacks
September 11 attacks
Arlene Hutton