Reverend Billy and Church of Stop Shopping hit the Dutch Theater Bigtime

Many Boing Boing readers will be familiar with the anti-capitalist art-provocateur antics of Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping. He's today the subject of a New York Times profile, after a theater group in the Netherlands paid him $25,000 to adapt his persona and some of his songs for Dutch Broadway. The NYT piece has an incorrect link for Amsterdam's Stardust theater company, by the way: here's the correct one.

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“anti-capitalist”………..”paid him $25,000 to adapt his persona”…. :)

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Anonymous

Theres also an entire movie about Rev. Billy called What Would Jesus Buy http://wwjbmovie.com