George Drance, S.J., left, as the Narrator and Richard Zavaglia as Stevens in a staged reading of "Mr. Blue."

A Journey with ‘Mr. Blue’ : Myles Connelly’s classic novel comes to life

by Michael V. Tueth May 29, 2014

This spring I attended a dramatic reading of the 1928 novel “Mr. Blue,” written by Myles Connolly. The book was required reading when I was in high school, and the staged reading was directed by a longtime Jesuit friend of mine, the multitalented George Drance, S.J., so I was eager to at

Books

Sisters on Screen

by Michael V. Tueth March 12, 2014

Dozens of well-known American and British actresses have portrayed religious women in film Some of them mdash Jennifer Jones in ldquo The Song of Bernadette rdquo and Susan Sarandon in ldquo Dead Man Walking rdquo mdash won Academy Awards for their performances There have been nuns who broke i

Theater

Through a Glass Darkly: Reviving Tennessee Williams

by Michael V. Tueth March 12, 2014

Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie first appeared on Broadway in 1945, beginning what would be a wave of great American plays about troubled families. Arthur Miller’s “All My Sons” and “Death of a Salesman,” William Inge’s “Picnic,” Eugene

UNHAPPY FAMILY: Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep and Julianne Nicholson in "August: Osage County"

Film

Vicious Circle: The dark family dynamics of “August: Osage County”

by Michael V. Tueth January 17, 2014

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus says, “It is not what goes into a man’s mouth that makes him impure; it is what comes out of his mouth” (15:2). Violet Weston, the central character in the film August: Osage County has been popping a huge amount of pills into her mouth for