By Terry Teachout Wall Street Journal
February 4, 2021
Ive reviewed many productions of “Doubt,” going back to the off-Broadway premiere and its Broadway transfer, and this one is as good as any version I’ve seen, not excluding the original. Shot onstage in an empty Tampa theater, it gets everything right, above all the cast. David M. Jenkins, Jobsite’s producing artistic director, plays Father Flynn, the likable priest; Roxanne M. Fay plays Sister Aloysius, the suspicious nun; Andresia Moseley plays Mrs. Muller, the mother of the effeminate black boy who has attracted Father Flynn’s attention; and Emily Belvo plays Sister James, a younger nun who cannot bring herself to believe that Father Flynn is capable of sexual misconduct. They are a fabulously well-matched ensemble, never stooping to the exaggeration that is a perpetual temptation in a play like “Doubt,” and Ms. Bohnenkamp has staged the play with transparent clarity, deploying her four actors like chessmen on a board...a
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