A good Sondheim show has the sinewy strength, both musically and dramatically, to thrive in the barest of renderings.
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August Wilson will not go quietly: a review of ‘Fences’ and ‘Jitney’
Since he died in 2005, Wilson’s stature has only increased, with his name regularly appearing on annual lists of the nation’s most-produced playwrights.
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“Life is a Dream” – A Jesuit director’s journal on his revival of “Spain’s Hamlet”
George Drance, S.J., blogs on his revival of Calderon’s “Life is a Dream.”
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How the theater helps us to survive, and to challenge, politics
How the theater helps us to survive, and to challenge, politics
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Like Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson will forever live in Shakespeare’s shadow.
Jonson set his play in Jacobean London—in Southwark and Blackfriars—in real time.
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These plays remind us that #BlackLivesMatter is more than a hashtag.
That is, if the promise of the New Testament is to be true that we might transcend our thorniest divisions.
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Jayne Houdyshell Is a Broadway baby at last
Ms. Houdyshell presents women as complex persons with a charm that gets everyone’s attention.
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The church has profound truths to speak about sexuality. Why is no one listening?
There are radiant truths within these Catholic documents. And then, it seems, the darker shroud of Rome is thrown down and ruins it all.
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‘Shuffle Along’ and the progress of African-Americans on Broadway
‘Shuffle Along’ was the first musical to feature an all-black cast.
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‘Long Day’s Journey’ and ‘Streetcar’ demonstrate the genius and challenge of American drama.
It is hard to imagine two more different writers or plays, but these two new stagings offer instructive contrasts.