From 2009: On William Shakespeare's birthday, Kathleen Doherty Fenty asks: Does it matter what his faith was?

It should not surprise us that the superhero genre has shaped our culture's understanding of Jesus.

God, Samuel Beckett and the 'Theater of the Absurd'

Flannery OConnor was a storyteller whose characters represent the strangest sort of people on earth.

When a revival of Robert Bolt’s marvelous play “A Man for All Seasons” opened on Broadway last October, the New York Times critic Ben Brantley, usually reliable for intelligent insights into theater and serious reflection on dramatic themes, wrote a strange review. Brantley seemed