The use of video and screens on stage has become a major bugbear for theater audiences. Often introduced for some jazziness in a show, they too often prove to be vexing diversion rather than valuable addition. When you see them on a stage, a theatergoer’s heart can sink: We are around them all day, can’t we just sit in a theater and not be faced with them!

But perhaps we shouldn’t leap to scorn too quickly. In a production like Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God (Playwrights Horizons, to Nov. 9), written by Severance star Jen Tullock and Frank Winters, Stefania Bulbarella’s video and screens are used in a completely original, brilliant, and, yes vital, way.

Inspired by Tullock’s own upbringing in Kentucky within the evangelical church, though not strictly autobiographical, this b

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