Tony Award winner Richard Easton,Fyvush Finkel, David Garrison, Jenn Harris, Michael Izquierdo, Natalia Payne and Jeremy Strong star in the world-premiere drama, directed by Tony Award winner Walter Bobbie. The play, about the 1656 interrogation of the philosopher Baruch De Spinoza, continues to Feb. 3 at CSC's home at 136 East 13th Street in Manhattan.

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At left (from top): Jeremy Strong; director Walter Bobbie and playwright David Ives; Fyvush Finkel; Richard Easton, Jack O'Brien and Joseph Hardy; Natalia Payne; Michael Izquierdo; Josh Hamilton, David Pittu and Anne Kaufman Schneider; Jenn Harris and Carole Chazin; Roberta Wallach, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson; Bebe Neuwirth; Marylouise Burke and Martha Plimpton.

Below: The cast of New Jerusalem takes its opening-night bows.

photos by Aubrey Reuben