Martin Luther On Trial at McAninch Arts Center

Everyone loves a juicy courtroom drama -- the lineup of colorful witnesses, the slick prosecutor, the innocent man desperately fighting for his freedom. But what if the witnesses consisted of everyone from Adolf Hitler to Sigmund Freud to Martin Luther King Jr.? What if that eloquent lawyer was none other than Lucifer? And what if that innocent man was Martin Luther, the man who sparked the Protestant battle against the all-powerful medieval church? That's the basis for Martin Luther On Trial, a provocative, witty drama that examines Luther's controversial life in a trial for the fate of his soul. The New Yorker called this Fellowship for Performing Arts production "brave and brilliant," and now it comes to McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.